Word: secretariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simply awaiting the report of the National Law Enforcement Commission as a basis for revision (if any) of his policy. Though he opposes repeal of the 18th Amendment, his public record is not so Dry as to exclude every form of modification. He is still, insist his secretariat, open-minded on the "experiment noble in motive...
Suddenly, on the day before the Briand-Henderson speeches, Signer Grandi walked out of his Geneva hotel, slipped into his limousine, sped off in the general direction of Rome without notifying any of his fellow diplomats or even the League Secretariat...
...Rapidan camp did not go to church. President Hoover ordered a Navy chaplain out from Washington, Sunday services held in the Marine mess hall. The President attended, heard Marines sing hymns to the tune of a small organ lent by the Y. M. C. A. ¶. The Hoover secretariat has long been troubled because it has not been able to build its "Chief" up with the sort of human-interest publicity which proved so helpful to Calvin Coolidge. Chief obstacle has been President Hoover's refusal to allow any personal chit-chat about himself or family to be divulged...
...federation would be built a tariff wall against the U. S. Before submitting his plan for general consideration however, M. Briand changed its name to The European Union, then gave this a diplomatic instead of an economic twist by proposing that the "E. U." consist primarily of a council & secretariat similar to those of the League of Nations...
Bluntly the British asked: why is the present League not sufficient, why are another council & secretariat needed? (The underlying reason is, of course, that the French think they could dominate a European league, whereas the worldwide League of Nations has proved too big for them to swing.) Unable to see any necessity for a second League from their point of view, the British objected that it might "emphasize or create tendencies to inter-continental rivalries and hostilities." Finally, in the strongest terms one friendly nation can use to another, the British note voiced fear that, if the European Union...