Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lenin's successor, Joseph Stalin, received Mr. Bullitt as the first U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Entering upon his job there with high hopes of cultivating real U. S.-Russian friendship, the Ambassador experienced a long series of personal disappointments and disillusionments. In 1936 he got himself transferred to Paris, likes it much better...
...dictatorial enemies of France where to get off. At a George Washington's Birthday dinner at the American Club in Paris, attended by the Duke of Windsor and such top-notch French bigwigs as Premier Daladier, Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet and Chief of Staff Marie Gustave Gamelin, Mr. Bullitt replied to German and Italian press charges that the U. S. was trying to start a war. With intentional and significant emphasis the Ambassador said: "We are not in the habit of starting wars...
...should do the paying while the other must do the dying" was an insult to France. Up rose William Shepherd Morrison, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who speaks in the House of Commons for Admiral of the Fleet Lord.Chatfield, Minister for the Coordination of Defense, surprisingly agreed with Mr. Churchill and said significantly: "Once involved in war we could not proceed upon a principle of limited liability." That statement, M.P.s believed, meant that Britain would send another expeditionary force to France in case...
...Before going to Munich last September to give Führer Hitler his way about Czechoslovakia, Mr. Chamberlain quoted Henry IV thus: "Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety...
...over the opposition of M. K. Gandhi, the Mahatma withdrew his support from the organization he had long nurtured. Soon most of the other well-known leaders who had worked with Mahatma Gandhi followed suit. For Pandit Nehru, however, there was a difficult choice: he was doctrinally sympathetic toward Mr. Bose but his personal devotion to the Mahatma was intense. He finally chose devotion and, in a bitter letter to Mr. Bose, resigned...