Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Delegate Joseph Paul-Boncour, white-haired veteran of many a League session, did not let the occasion slip by without reminding the world that there were other aggressions and other aggressors. M. Paul-Boncour said that France and Britain were today fighting to "defend the very principle on which the League was founded," that they were indeed at war with the chief "author of European aggression"-Adolf Hitler. The Finns welcomed the moral support, but pressed for greater assurances of more material aid. In Moscow the British and French League speeches were described in the Soviet press as having "exceeded...
...made such speeches as Darnley, Arnold and Chichester reeled off last week would find his career ended amid shouts of "Traitor!" In phlegmatic London, the sensation in the Lords effectively diverted public curiosity from what happened that same night in the House of Commons, which held its first secret session of World...
Russian Delegate Jacob Suritz, also Ambassador to France, kept to his hotel while the League Council, in secret session, debated. Prominent visitor to Comrade Suritz's suite was the cultured, polished, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, the Chinese delegate. One more screwy turn of the 20th Century's apparently chronic cockayed politics, had put the doctor on another grotesque spot. Once China demanded that the League act against Japanese aggression. Later China supported League action against Italy in Ethiopia. But China, on the other hand, gets much of its war materials from the Soviet Union. Despite China...
...gone merrily for Germany. But all of a sudden the notes began to go flat. Finland was putting up such a fight that Russia evidently could not take on a new adventure. Moreover, in Rome the Fascist Grand Council, highest governing body of Italy, met in a lengthy night session, heard Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano expound for two hours and a half and finally conclude that "everything that may happen in the Danube Basin and the Balkans cannot help but directly interest Italy." The Soviet Government took the almost unprecedented step of squelching Communist International for its article...
...rail labor, Congressionally represented by shrewd Senator Burt Wheeler, is conceded Washington's No. 1 lobby. Notorious is its ability to send bills crashing through in the last few days of a session; formidable is its veto of any bill to reduce the number of rail jobs available for its dues-paying members...