Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scent of almond blossoms wafts across Stresa's azure lake, agreeably perfuming the beauteous little Italian town. Last week Stresa's 2,000 inhabitants were outnumbered by Fascist detectives, police and militia protecting the lives of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his Foreign Minister Sir John Simon, Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin and his Foreign Minister Pierre Laval and Benito Mussolini, Duce del Fascismo e Capo del Governo who is his own Foreign Minister. All one could smell was fresh paint...
Brass Tacks. Either the Stresa Conference was going to induce Britain to stop vacillating and take a firm stand on Adolf Hitler and problems raised by his tearing up of the Treaty of Versailles (TIME, March 25) or endless temporizing must continue. As Sir John Simon was told to his face in the House of Commons by an irate M. P. just before he and the Prime Minister left England last week, "We have heard where France, Italy, Germany, Russia and Poland stand but we don't know where our own country stands...
...Duce, once a reporter covering European conferences, kept the World Press fuming on shore, dashed off crisp communiques from the island in which he figured as "Head of the Government" (Il Capo del Governo) without bothering to specify which government. To their hearts' content Scot MacDonald and Lawyer Simon rambled idealistically on & on. Mussolini & Flandin urged the British to join them in direct demands that the League Council take punitive steps against Adolf Hitler's raising of a conscript army of 550,000 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. MacDonald & Simon, though they had in effect told...
Opening with lengthy, minute particulars of Germany's urchin-in-the-jam-closet behavior, Dame France recalled to the League Council that, whereas German Air Minister Goring denied on Dec. 20, 1934 that his country possessed a military air force, three months later Realmleader Hitler told Sir John Simon that the Fatherland's military air force is equal to Great Britain...
...nearest thing to making a commitment, MacDonald & Simon joined Mussolini in solemnly reaffirming the obligations of Britain and Italy as guarantors of the original (Western) Locarno Pact, supposed to nail down the frontiers of Germany, Belgium and France (TIME...