Word: scialojas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fifty-fourth session of the Council of the League of Nations opened in Geneva, last week, with sardonic Vittorio Scialoja in the chair. This brilliant, skeptical Italian jurist comes of a line of Scialojas who have been magistrates and grand dignitaries since the 17th Century. He collaborated with Woodrow Wilson in drafting the Covenant of the League of Nations as Italian Foreign Minister (1919-20) ; today, in the 73rd year of his vigorous age, he is the personal and implicitly trusted diplomatic representative of Dictator Benito Mussolini. "Order!" rapped Chairman Vittorio Scialoja, as his judicial forbears have rapped for generations...
...Chamberlain (Britain), supercilious to correspondents but ready with a queer, cackling laugh for his colleagues; 2) Monsieur Aristide Briand (France), tousled and heavy eyed as a tomcat at dawn; 3) Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany), plump, bald, rubicund, and yet with a trig, indefinable air of smartness; 4)Signor Vittorio Scialoja (Italy), representing with compact, bustling decisiveness the great Duce; 5) Baron Adachi (Japan), frail, insignificant in stature, piping voiced, yet with a winning and decisive mien...
...French Cabinet met in three long secret sessions and finally transmitted to M. Briand "new instructions." The shade of Alfred Nobel must have rejoiced as his three Peace prize winners signed a convention adjusting their differences on a hotel table. With them, to bind the bargain, signed Signer Scialoja of Italy, Foreign Minister Vandervelde of Belgium and dapper Viscount Ishii of Japan, League Council members all. The role of Emile Vandervelde, veteran Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, in last week's negotiations was candidly revealed by Dr. Stresemann who said: "He took the part of mediator between us. . . . Do not forget...
With the receipt of the German application, an extraordinary session of the Assembly of the League of Nations was at once called for March 8 by Signer Vittorio Scialoja, the Italian President of the Council of the League of Nations. At the same time, it was announced that the preliminary parley which is to pave the way for a League Economic Conference (TIME, Sept. 28 LEAGUE) will assemble at Geneva on April...
Between the lines of Signor Scialoja's bland pronouncement, diplomats read the disheartening truth that the world is not yet ready to disarm. For the past fortnight the heads of many governments have been scurrying about looking for a "formula" under which postponement could be effected without branding any nation as unwilling to disarm. France and England have been especially anxious not to incur this disagreeable onus of responsibility-hence the hasty and secret consultation among Premier Briand, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Sir Eric Drummond, the ever tactful Secretary General to the League of Nations (TIME...