Word: salvadore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's gigantic international game of bluff & bully overshadowed the League of Nations, but its dynamo of diplomacy whined on. The Committee of Five, instructed to find a formula for the Ethiopian crisis (TIME, Sept. 16), labored zealously under the chairmanship of Spain's Chief Delegate, idealistic Philosopher-Diplomatist Salvador de Madariaga in Geneva. At first inclined to recommend that Italy be given a status over Ethiopia similar to that which Britain holds over the nominally independent Kingdom of Irak, the Committee finally decided to recommend for Ethiopia the status recommended by the League two years ago for Liberia...
Benito for Business. The fireworks being over, the League Council, as it always does, appointed a commission. Chairmanned by Salvador de Madariaga, oldtime Spanish idealist and Leaguophile, the Commissioners were Premier Laval, Captain Eden, Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Josef Beck and Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Rushtu Aras. With a show of bravado Fascist Aloisi said that "Italy reserves absolute freedom of action!" But Geneva was heavy with rumors that Dictator Mussolini had privately intimated that he was now ready to do business with the Peacemen, if they can and will do business...
Replacing Colonel Spaulding is Arthur R. Harris, Major, Field Artillery, a graduate of West Point in 1914, present military Attachez of the American Legation in San Jose, Costa Rica; Guatamala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and San Salvador...
Described as "a bit of surrealism to end all surrealism" by Ceramist Aitken, the figure was a burlesque of the paintings and parties of Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dali (TIME, Nov. 26). It was a very white lady with turquoise blue hair, clock faces for breasts and lamb chops sprouting from her shoulders. In a turquoise lined square aperture in her stomach stands a brightly colored vase. A fried egg is in one hand, a blue fish in the other. Around her stomach is a girdle of field mice. Directly in front of her polished thighs are two little football players...
Many another Councilman spoke, Britain's judicial Sir John Simon, France's forthright peasant-tongued Pierre Laval, Spain's verbose and lyric Salvador de Madariaga, but they all added up to the same verdict. Even rawboned Danish Foreign Minister Dr. Peter Munch had no good to say of his country's huge Nazi neighbor. He merely said that he knew everyone would understand why Denmark "could not'' (i. e. dared not) vote against Germany and must abstain...