Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lounging in his seat, Sir John Simon remained refrigerator-cool. With no intention of replying to M. Barthou's personal remarks, he soothed...
Against the Simon plan of partial rearmament for Germany and disarmament for the rest of the world, Louis Barthou held out vigorously for Benito Mussolini's plan to freeze armaments at the status...
...well understand," cried the peppery little Frenchman, "that paternity has its illusions. My honorable colleague, Simon"-and whether he added "who is already my friend," or "who is almost my friend" Geneva papers could not agree- "conceived this plan and his paternity has so many illusions that he tells us there has been only one concrete project submitted to the conference. My eminent colleague, Mussolini, who certainly is not a man incapable of paternity, also has his child...
Nevertheless Sir John Simon packed up and went back to London. Next to leave Geneva was Belgium's chief delegate. Foreign Minister Paul Hymans. Worried "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, President of the Conference, adjourned it for a few days to let tempers cool...
...stuffed with names from undertakers' lists. The city is as gangster-ridden as Chicago. Its Capone, a sly ruffian named Paul Carbone, alias Venture, was arrested and accused of complicity in the Dijon murder of Judge Albert Prince. Boss of Marseilles is a one-eyed Corsican Deputy named Simon Sabiani-just Simon to most of Marseilles...