Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Samuel Hoare, revealed that while Britain is bound by treaty to aid Belgium or France if these are attacked by Germany, in the minds of members of the British Cabinet "the situation differs materially from the situation in 1914. In 1914 there were in existence definite commitments. There was an actual and agreed plan between the French, and British general staffs. In the present case there are no such commitments. We shall have to judge the situation when it arises...
These words could be read as meaning that the Cabinet are in a mood to shrug off some of Britain's most solemn treaty obligations. Before Europe could be shocked, however, Sir Samuel's entourage explained that the First Lord's words were an expression of the fact that Britain is not bound to send any particular kind of aid although she is bound to send aid and is true to this obligation...
...Such official explanation only made more obscure Sir Samuel's reasons for making such a statement and British officials were obliged to disclose further the surprising fact that today the French General Staff is cold to the idea of having a British land force again rushed across the Channel as in 1914, though the French are hot to have all possible British fighting aircraft dispatched on the first outbreak of hostilities...
Engaged. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 22, third son of the 32nd U. S. President, Harvard senior; and Ethel du Pont, 20, eldest daughter of retired Powdermaker Eugene du Pont, niece of Powdermakers Lammot, Pierre Samuel and Irenée du Pont; at Owls Nest, Greenville, Del., where Franklin Jr. was a week-end guest. Miss du Pont announced that their June wedding would not be at the White House...
Died. John L. Baker, 64, who 47 years ago saw the South Fork Dam crumble, galloped a mile down the valley to warn inhabitants of the approaching Johnstown Flood; of leg injuries sustained when he was struck by an automobile; in Windber, Pa. Died, Samuel E. Hill, 70, onetime traveling salesman who 38 years ago in Boscobel, Wis., with John H. Nicholson, laid the foundation for the Christian Commercial Travelers' Association (Gideons); of heart disease; in Beloit,Wis. (seep...