Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dear Sir & Brother...
...only due to the influence of myself and other Egyptian leaders that these riots against the British did not break out long ago. Britain has suffocated us, made us mere servants. We hoped that she would give us a more liberal constitution but now Sir Samuel Hoare, the British Foreign Secretary, with his Guildhall Speech saying that 'England and Egypt are irrevocably bound together by history and geography,' has revealed her real intentions. There is nothing to do but fight...
Coining an urbane phrase in which to describe the efforts of British diplomats in Washington and London to draw the Roosevelt Administration into their way of thinking, Sir Gerald Campbell, popular British Consul General in Manhattan, declared: "We should like to embroil the United States in peace." Added Sir Gerald hastily, "not to protect the British Empire, but to save humanity from itself...
Although a new World Naval Conference convenes Dec. 6 in London (see p. 9), Britons last week so thoroughly expected its failure due to Rearmament that they scarcely bothered to note that the First Lord of the Admiralty remains Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell. His formula for the Conference is not limitation, much less reduction of naval armaments, but "pooled programs." By this Sir Bolton means not that the great naval powers will be asked to pool their Might for any high-minded purpose, but merely that they will be asked to pool with each other non-binding statements relating...
With their British political careers ripening as uneventfully as grain, Sir Bolton and Secretary for Air Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister had Viscountcies conferred upon them by George V last week. By accepting them they signified that neither has any ambition to become Prime Minister, considered impossible today for a member of the House of Lords...