Word: sir
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sir Samuel concluded that failure of The Deal to go through last week far enough to lay a groundwork for further negotiations "makes the position more difficult and dangerous than it was before. ... I believe that, unless these facts are faced and faced in the immediate future, either the League will break up or a most unsatisfactory peace will result from the conflict which is now taking place...
...less than the southern half of the country (TIME, Dec. 23). Deal No. 2 was drafted by the Emperor on the advice of his trusted Yankee friend, Mr. Everett Andrew Colson. It resembles Deal No. i in so many vital respects as to suggest that Premier Pierre Laval and Sir Samuel Hoare were not indulging in hypocrisy when they voiced confidence that Deal No. i was acceptable at least as a basis for negotiation to Italy, Ethiopia and the League. It proved not acceptable last week to British public opinion...
...election was won. Shortly afterward "The Deal" to make peace by dismembering Ethiopia was agreed to in Paris by British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, Dec. 16). It was approved by the entire Baldwin Cabinet. It was officially presented at Geneva by the British Minister for League of Nations Affairs, Anthony Eden. It was formally delivered to the Italian Government and to the Ethiopian Government by the chiefs of the French and British diplomatic missions, together with urgent advice that it be accepted by Haile Selassie and Benito Mussolini. It was published as a White Paper with the imprimatur...
When the moral stench against them grew insupportable. His Majesty's Government accepted the resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare last week, although he had done nothing except on their prior instructions and with their subsequent approval. In sheltering themselves by means of a scapegoat were His Majesty's Government cowards...
Hero Hoare. The vote was not to come until midnight and it was then midafternoon. Sharp at 3:40 p.m. Scapegoat Sir Samuel Hoare appeared. If treachery and cowardice had been shown, he was at least the No. 2 Traitor and the No. 2 Coward. What is known as British fair play won him upon his entry a veritable tumult of cheers from all parts of the House of Commons. His chief accuser, Nobel Peaceman Sir Austen Chamberlain, a pillar of official rectitude and a torch of moral indignation against The Deal, had been saving a place...