Word: parleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations' General Disarmament Conference which opened last February at Geneva. When talk was loud and hopes high, Delegate Davis was obscured by other U. S. representatives. But as the conference began to coast downhill into disagreement and failure, the others tiptoed home one by one. The parley moved too slowly to hold Secretary of State Stimson's presence for more than a fortnight. Ambassador Gibson went back to Belgium, ceased, for reasons unknown, to be President Hoover's diplomatic handyman. Miss Mary Emma Woolley returned to Mount Holyoke College, Virginia's Senator Swanson...
...Limitation et pour la Reduction des Armaments. The Conference has proved disappointing, but not Democrat Davis. He has become indispensable to the President, golfing ably with Sir John Simon in England, slipping over to Paris for a quiet aperitif with Edouard Herriot, journeying to Rome for a naval parley with Benito Mussolini. Precisely because the U.S. Press has not yet caught up with the importance of Mr. Davis, his importance has continued great in delving and dickering around Europe for the President, comparatively unnoticed...
British Plan. Making a success of the Conference meant, last week, that the Great Powers must get their new disarmament plans off their Chief Delegates' chests and that these plans must be such as to tempt Germany back into the parley...
...Arms Parley. Bland, tenacious German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath arrived in Geneva for the League Council meeting last week, but not to attend the continuing committee of the Geneva Armament Conference...
...before Nov. 8. Rarely in step with the White House, Senator William Edgar Borah went to Minneapolis last week and there delivered before the summer convocation of the University of Minnesota a powerful address for the inclusion of Reparations, Debts and armaments as major economic factors in the London parley. Putting aside his famed isolationist views, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called on the U. S. to take a world lead in the settlement of world problems. Excerpts: "We can't restore confidence in the business world until the vast load of armaments are lifted from...