Word: parleying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end Japanese Ambassador-at-Large Sotomatsu Kato warned Sir Robert that unless Great Britain resumed negotiations within 24 hours, the Army delegations would break up the parley, go back to Tientsin, set off another boiler under Neville Chamberlain. After 24 hours the parley was still recessed. Without losing their tempers, the soldiers buckled on their swords and flew back to China. "If Britain mends her ways," said one, "we might come back...
...turn over to her the Chinese silver stocks deposited in British Concessions. On this point Mr. Chamberlain has said that he would never yield. Last week, with the U.S. throwing a scare into the Japanese, concession seemed out of the question, even if it meant breaking off the parley...
...Russians were quick to point out that this arrangement still left the way wide open for the British and French to attend another Munich parley (for which they have no taste). In an officially inspired editorial in Izvestia, Moscow daily newsorgan, the U. S. S. R. demanded iron-clad alliances in which nothing would be left to discussion and in which Britain, France and Russia would automatically guarantee each others' borders and those of other smaller States. Said Izvestia: "Where there is no reciprocity real collaboration cannot be brought about." Badgered by the French, the British Labor Party...
Last week the ruling sovereigns of these two warring States, Herr Hitler and Prince Franz Josef of Liechtenstein, sat down at a Berlin parley. Their subject of discussion: colonies. Prince Franz Josef's colony is a private estate in the Sudetenland, an estate considerably larger than his 5x12 country. Surprisingly for an enemy ruler who wants a colony or two for himself, Herr Hitler made no immediate demands on the integrity of the Prince's colonial empire...
Wesleyan University has invited all Harvard students to attend its annual Parley on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week. The subject will be "American Foreign Policy" and many authorities will speak, among them Senator Nye, Adolph A. Berle, Jr. '12, assistant, Secretary of State, and Nathaniel Peffer, authority on the Far East. Wesleyan will arrange for accommodations and meals at its own expense...