Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With her Rolls-Royce engines throbbing sweetly, a "Flying British Foreign Office" lofted up from Croydon this week, swept off across the Channel. Aboard were crack Whitehall diplomats fluent in German, and Sir John Simon who was reported to have sighed: "I could talk with Hitler in French if he could talk French...
...John's Chestnuts." As the Imperial Airways liner carrying Sir John Simon approached Amsterdam, it coasted down to a landing and aboard stepped the handsome young Oxonian fixer who likes to be called "Mr. Eden...
...hoarse cheers, sharpening his intuition. About all the preparation Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath had been able to make was to persuade the Ministry of Interior with great difficulty, to release from jail and house arrest several hundred Protestant pastors locked up for denouncing Naziism as "pagan," Sir John Simon being the son of a clergyman...
...grinding conviction that France had just been twice betrayed by Britain, broadly for reasons of high policy by His Majesty's Government, narrowly by Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon for vain and personal reasons, embittered Le Sénat and La Chambre last week to the point of fury...
Despite French and Italian troop movements to the borders and the recent flare-up over Lithuanian treatment of Nazi agitators, European nations have settled into a state of suspended animation, largely due to Sir John Simon's visit to Germany. Again Britain, much to the dissatisfaction of her former allies, is playing her historic role of mediator and preserver of the balance of power. One of the most favorable signs in the present imbroglio has been the enthusiastic reception given by the German populace to Britain's part as the "honest broker...