Word: offered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stimson offered Britain U. S. collaboration in stopping the Japanese. Sir John Simon, the British Foreign Secretary, not only turned the offer down, but later, at Geneva, argued for "realism" and "flexibility" in applying the League of Nations Covenant against Japan. What the British then hoped was that the Japanese would turn northward from Manchuria and clash with the Soviet Union, leaving their huge investments in China (said to be worth $1,410,000,000) alone. Instead the Japanese marched southward, and last week Britain's diplomatic chickens of 1932 had come home to roost. Small comfort...
When Rev. John Crocker, Episcopal Chaplain of Princeton University, was considering an offer to go to St. Paul's School as its headmaster last year (TIME, Aug. 8), his good friend and old headmaster, Groton's Endicott ("Peabo") Peabody, urged him to take the job. "Jack" Crocker, like St. Paul's, is High Church, and Dr. Peabody believed he would be happy there. But Crocker turned down St. Paul's, as he had turned down nominations for the Episcopal bishoprics of New Jersey and Vermont. Last week he got an invitation he did not refuse. With...
...nation all his private papers since 1910 (numbering some 8,000,000 items) if admirers would build, with private funds, a repository for them at Hyde Park on land which he would donate, and if Congress would keep it up in perpetuity with public funds. Last week this offer lay before the House for acceptance. To Mr. Roosevelt's admirers' dismay, it was declined...
...quoting his own speech of May 19. "We would not refuse to discuss any method by which reasonable aspirations on the part of other nations could be satisfied, even if this meant some adjustment of the existing state of things," said Mr. Chamberlain. Day later he repeated his offer: "We are ready to discuss around the table claims of Germany or any other country, provided there seems a reasonable prospect of settlement...
...time limit of 48 hours was set for acceptance. When Lawrence Berenson, representative of American Jewish relief organizations, made counterproposals, the Cubans broke off negotiations. Then the original Cuban offer was accepted but it was too late. The Cubans, who felt that in receiving 5,000 German-Jewish refugees they had already done more than their share, declared the matter "definitely closed," refused to listen to further pleas. A young Jewess who crashed an official reception to appeal to President Laredo Bru on behalf of her parents on the St. Louis was hustled off by aides...