Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami Beach, Sir Charles Higham, Director of British Propaganda during the War, took it on himself to air his opinion of Franklin Roosevelt. His opinion: The President of the United States is "as bold, as ambitious, as demagogic and, had he the chance, would be as dictatorial as Hitler or Mussolini...
...could win pacifist votes for the Conservative Party; and 2) a veteran statesman who could unobtrusively do such dirty work in foreign policy as might be necessary. He appointed handsome young Anthony Eden to the completely new office of Secretary for League of Nations Affairs and put in Sir Samuel Hoare as Foreign Secretary...
...Eden, quickly popularized as a sort of League of Nations Knight-in-Shining-Armor. was a big factor in enabling Conservative Party Leader Baldwin to win the next General Election. Meanwhile, Sir Samuel Hoare and French Premier Pierre Laval were privately engaged on a deal to condone Italy's seizure of Ethiopia. The Hoare-Laval "Deal" leaked into the news a few days before its makers were ready to present it to the public as a high-minded effort to make peace on the basis of joint Anglo-French-Italian "carrying of Civilization to the barbarians of Ethiopia...
...Sir Herbert Ames, Canadian statesman who was the first Financial Director of the League of Nations, will speak in the Upper Common Room of the Union Monday night on. "A Week at the National Socialist Party Rally at Nuremburg," and show a sound film of the Nazi spectacle...
...British guest at the 1937 rally, Sir Herbert will discuss the exhibition of the Nazi "Defense Army" and Hitler's address. Sponsored by the Union Committee, the lecture will be open to all members of the University...