Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they faced each other across the great oak table in Palazzo Venezia last week neither Sir Eric nor the Dictator harbored illusion. The sins and the mistakes of Italy's Victorianism were transparent...
...League of Nations was committed with the nation which had always been the Covenant's leading champion, France. It was compounded at Stresa later, when Mussolini and Laval encountered no rebuke or opposition to their public sinning from James Ramsay MacDonald, then British Prime Minister, and Sir John Simon, then Foreign Secretary...
Mussolini's Sin No. 2 in the present crisis, his use of war as an instrument of national policy, similarly depends upon the Briand-Kellogg Pact of 1928. From the vantage ground of these two lofty technicalities, Sir Eric Drummond, the Ambassador of Victoria's grandson, was entitled to gaze reproachfully upon Benito Mussolini last week and did in fact so gaze...
...Wise & Faithful." Sir Eric, as he and the Dictator talked, received an impact so powerful that next day New York Timesman Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. cabled from London: "Last night the most urgent kind of warning reached the British Government from wise, faithful Ambassador Drummond to the effect that Mussolini was convinced Britain intended to make war upon him and therefore had poured new troops into Libya"-i.e. opposite the British position in Egypt...
...boats, the Italian Government spokesman pointed out, was ordered by London on its own, has never been requested or endorsed by the League, and occurred prior to sanction activity. If it, too, was electioneering, II Duce was prepared to stomach a good deal, but he blazed at Sir Eric that from London there was a minimum which Italy also must obtain...