Word: runcimanned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maisky. While these fireworks sizzled in Moscow, diplomatic spade work went on in London. Soviet Ambassador Yvan Maisky quietly called on Sir John Simon and on Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade. The result of these conversations was reported to Moscow and to Ramsay MacDonald: When the trial ends, a verdict of Guilty will almost certainly be pronounced, a verdict that will flame in every Soviet newspaper, BUT this verdict may be appealed to the Presidium of the Union Central Executive Committee which has the power to transmute death or prison sentences to deportation from Russia...
...signed at Washington in 1923 the promise to pay $11,000,000,000 over 62 years, from which Mother Britain has been trying to extricate herself ever since; 3) Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon; 4) Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain; 5) President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman...
...food tariffs resulting from the Ottawa Conference and the inevitable rise in food prices to British consumers. This new upping he would not stomach. Observers announced that if the Conservatives persisted, they might force not only Premier MacDonald but his faithful Liberal President of the Board of Trade, Walter Runciman, out of the Cabinet...
Ambition & Mrs. Runciman. Also set up last week were the Committee on Relations with Foreign Nations, Committee on Currency, Committee on Customs Regulations, Committee on Economic Relations. All these began work in secret. Strangely enough it was Mrs. Walter Runciman, ex-M.P.?whose husband was supposed to be a high tariff man in the Baldwin delegation?who unbosomed in such a way as to create the first Conference furor...
...good foodstuffs as cheaply as possible is the ambition of the English woman!" said Mrs. Runciman firmly. "A further tax [on food] would take a lot of explaining." Drawn out at greater length Mrs. Runciman said in substance that the British consumer will not submit to higher food prices even to ensure the success of the Conference. She appeared to assume that a tariff shutting non-Empire food out of the Mother Country would inevitably result in the Dominions charging higher prices for their food, even though it should enter the Mother Country duty free. Since Mr. Runciman...