Word: parleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looks as if Uncle Sam is holding the bag again, and Britain slips around to Japan. British diplomacy has a beautiful way of just not being there where you really expect her sometimes. Just before the London Naval Parleys opened up, the Anglo-Saxons gave us quite definitely the impression that they were in sympathetic accord with the American conviction at the coming Parley. And that conviction: Japan shall not have naval equality. It certainly appeared that there was to be an Anglo-American bloc, a united front of two nations in concerted beliefs...
London, Oct. 24--Sharp differences between the United States and Japan on the latter's demands for equal naval strength and security rights developed during the initial parley between statesmen of the two powers here today...
Thus last month did Sir Henri Deterding, swart, dynamic head of Royal Dutch-Shell, shrug off the possibility of a world oil parley in view of the low estate...
Chancellor Hitler, returning to Berlin from his parley, with President von Hindenburg, banged his big desk for the benefit of a British correspondent and shouted: "At the risk of appearing to talk nonsense I tell you that the Nazi movement will go on for 1,000 years! . . . Don't forget how people laughed at me 15 years ago when I declared that one day I would govern Germany. They laugh now, just as foolishly, when I declare that I shall remain in power...
...Rome, a parley among statesmen from Italy, Austria and Hungary prepared to get under way with a three-power treaty in sight, allying Italy against Nazi Germany in Central Europe...