Word: parleys
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...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...
...despairing words of Peer Gynt: "It's like a fight among bears, half-asleep and snarling." The fact is, there's nothing to hit, and if one hits it, it doesn't care. Yesterday Britain and Italy demanded that Germany return to the League and to the arms parley: Germany only withdrew in the first place to give her State officials something to do; Britain and Italy don't really care if they ever hear from the Reich again; in fact, if all three countries were to sink rapidly into the sea tomorrow, it would only provide a human interest...
...effective caricature of French politics, French traits. Henry Jones, solemn U. S. citizen temporarily resident in Paris while writing a cookbook designed to glorify French cuisine, is accused by a Frenchwoman of having walked off from a restaurant with her husband's coat. In the course of their parley a crowd collects. The spirit of Verdun and the iniquity of the War debts are mentioned, and by the time they have reached the Vive la France! stage the mob has grown to such threatening proportions that gendarmes arrive and escort Jones to prison. There it is assumed that...
Leaks from the Hitler-Poncet parley suggested that the Chancellor: 1) did not answer France's question: 2) proposed that the Saar question should be settled at once by Franco-German negotiation instead of by the scheduled Saar plebiscite in 1935: 3) offered, if permitted to increase Germany's armaments substantially above the limits set by the Treaty of Versailles, to pledge the German Government not to exceed the new limits. According to Ambassador François-Poncet's entourage, Chancellor Hitler exclaimed during their conversation: "Two things must at all costs be removed...
...those nations sincerely desirous of European peace still have an opportunity to preserve it. An economic boycott of Germany to force its government to terms would so multiply its target as to make a shot impractical. If Great Britain and France will not consent to an arms parley at Stresa, they must shepherd Hitler back to the Geneva conference, and a boycott would provide the quickest and least disastrous instrument for this purpose. Hitler must have a voice in the settlement of the armament question; he cannot accept the decision which seems impending at Geneva, he is unable to meet...