Word: owl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diplomats are supposed to be a tactful tribe, but in Tokyo owl-eyed Mr. Eiji Amau, famed Official Spokesman of Japan's Foreign Office, continues to carve out of tactlessness a great career. Many Japanese expect to see him Premier some day. Last week Official Spokesman Amau fairly surpassed himself when mockingly he announced that if the Great Powers dislike Japan's far-sighted and ingenious oil policy, "they can appeal to China...
Said Mr. Bidwell: "There was nothing risque. . . . There was not a laugh in it, and St. Joan was as solemn as an owl...
...Duce needed all his trust in armies as keepers of the peace last week, for away from the blank cartridges of the maneuvers, he was still playing with Austria's political dynamite. In the face of the surly, worried opposition of the Little Entente, owl-eyed Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, new Chancellor of Austria, arrived in Florence for an interview like those that Benito Mussolini and the late Engelbert Dollfuss used to hold. At the railway station Il Duce met his guest in an all-purpose costume consisting of brown sack suit, riding boots and yachting cap. Most of his staff...
...route to the conference last week owl-eyed Premier Wang Ching-Wei set an example of close-lipped secrecy which was followed by all except Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung, stogie-smoking Christian descendant of Confucius. He felt obliged to comment on President Roosevelt's nationalization of silver as he stepped aboard an airplane at Shanghai. Said Dr. Kung: "We also would like to nationalize silver but for China this is impossible because our Government is hampered by extraterritorial treaties. We do not want the price to skyrocket, for silver is vital to our national life...
Zipping back to Berlin, the forehanded Chancellor summoned his Cabinet and in the night before President von Hindenburg died a decree law was drafted and signed by the harried Ministers, ready for proclamation to block the Constitutional procedure under which owl-eyed Supreme Court Chief Justice Dr. Erwin Bumke would normally have become Acting President on the death of Paul von Hindenburg...