Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prince Bismarck received Chancellor Hitler's "observations" on this proposed convention last week in a long code cablegram from the Wilhelmstrasse. Calling his limousine he sped to Whitehall, marched into the office of tall, frigid British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and told him that Germany cannot wait until 1938 before beginning to achieve armament equality with France. At the very least, in Chancellor Hitler's view, the Fatherland should at once be allowed to have "samples" of all armaments now denied her by the Treaty of Versailles; big guns, tanks, battle planes. Finally, even if a four...
...French Premier Edouard Daladier. speaking at Vichy, held up the Fatherland's request for "samples" and rejection of "supervision" as evidence that Germany is ruled by a "cult of force." Most striking, however, was a British warning to the Reich, said to have been dictated by Sir John Simon after he received Prince Bismarck and hastily inserted in a speech which the Cabinet's Lord President of the Council, Stanley Baldwin, was scheduled to make that night. "Any nation which deliberately prevents such an agreement [as the armament standstill] being reached," cried Mr. Baldwin, "will have no friend...
...Premier Edouard Daladier who also blames the President for the wreck of the London Conference, and sought to soothe the Frenchman with a cheery verbal message from Mr. Roosevelt. These chores done, Mr. Davis proceeded to sit in at Paris on disarmament parleys with British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, French Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour and Italian Ambassador Count Pignatti-Morano Di Custoza. The French thesis, vehemently presented by shaggy, voluble M. Paul-Boncour, is that French spies have obtained ample proof that Germany is secretly rearming in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, that only by setting...
Hold Your Horses (libretto by Russel Grouse & Corey Ford; music & lyrics by Russell Bennett, Robert A. Simon, Owen Murphy). ''The locale of this comedy is New York City at the turn of the Century," says a program note by Messrs. Grouse & Ford. "If any member of the audience can detect the slightest error in atmosphere or historical data, the authors would be greatly obliged if he would please keep his mouth shut about it." It would be more to the point if Author Grouse (It Seems Like Yesterday, Mr. Currier & Mr. Ives) and Funnyman Ford should defy their...
...permanently defeated organization," and in preferring a temporary compromise to the awful alternative of seeing O'Brien untoppled, and his dispensation retained, but there is in Mr. Thomas' position far more dignity, far more of that contemptuous idealism which ennobles Rousseau than of that mild practicality which makes Saint Simon, in the long perspective, seem more than a little ridiculous...