Word: sauerwein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy was leading one group of confederation conferees, Turkey the other; there was speculation that Italy and Turkey might even get together and lead the nations in the same direction of security and neutrality. And from Paris perceptive Foreign Editor Jules Sauerwein of Paris-Soir warned: "It is toward these regions of Europe that onlookers must turn during the coming weeks. They will see if these nations can forget their rivalries and grudges in the common peril." No one would be happier to forget grudges than Carol II, but none knew better than he how ingrained Balkan grudges are. Moreover...
...world, aghast, looked for a clause, a phrase, a word that could be interpreted as a loophole. Even the German-Italian military alliance, reported Paris-Soir's authoritative Foreign Editor Jules Sauerwein last week, contained a clause in which Germany promised to make no war for three years. By contrast the phrasing of last week's Pact was as inescapable as handcuffs...
...Edouard Herriot, voiced his "personal satisfaction."Socialist Premier Blum cried: "I am most happy at the triumph of President Roosevelt, for whom I have the greatest admiration!" As a respected editorial voice speaking for the moderate Left, roughly comparable in France to the U. S. Democratic Party, famed Jules Sauerwein of Le Paris-Soir exhulted: "Henceforth democracy has its Chief! After his brilliant triumph President Roosevelt has become the statesman on whom all eyes will be turned from every part of the world and on whom every hope is to be pinned if the great liberal and democratic civilization...
Only statesman to speak out with anything like candor on the actual League situation was Benito Mussolini, who received No. French Newspundit Jules Sauerwein and in striking phrases unburdened his mind. "Solutions can be found with Geneva, without Geneva or against Geneva," said the Dictator. "The League of Nations, like the loveliest girl in the world, cannot give more than it has. ... I am in conversation with England. . . . Conflict between our two nations is inconceivable." "Until now the English have considered the Italians as a gay, picturesque and agreeable people," continued II Duce. "It has never come into the English...
Judicial Jules Sauerwein of Paris-Soir, dean of French foreign affairs editors, observed: "There is only one way to avoid war and that is for the Ethiopian Emperor to give Italy adequate satisfaction. Any other method will end in a breach between Italy and the League and in profound disturbance of France's entire policy in Central Europe. If Britain should invoke international principles, we shall be able to reply that she herself sells them cheaply when it is a question of modifying, by her sole decision, the entire naval status of the Reich...