Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weary troopers in the thin platoons of Peace are haggard, hang-jowled "Uncle Arthur" Henderson, the down-&-out former British Labor Leader who is President of the down-&-out Disarmament Conference and small, pucker-browed Sir Norman Angell, an eminent pacifist lecturer who in 1929 attempted to clean up by inventing The Money Game...
Last week, perhaps because of the extreme difficulty of finding potent champions of peace today, prophetic Sir Norman and pathetic Mr. Henderson were awarded respectively the Nobel Peace Prizes for 1933 and 1934?about $40,000 to each...
...been one thing that Adolf Hitler thought he could count on, it has been the refusal of the British Government to send troops across the Channel to enforce order during the Saar plebiscite Jan. 13. Not only has the House of Commons been assured time & again by Foreign Minister Sir John Simon that no troops would be sent, but the entire British Press has been clamoring against the dispatch of a single Tommy overseas. Last week England, the inexplicable, the illogical and the impulsive, proved herself England once again...
...down Whitehall that Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin had, with bull-like, bumbling, British common sense, suddenly decided that His Majesty's Government must do the obvious and had carried all before him by brushing aside the nervous scruples of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and Foreign Minister Sir John Simon. Once again the intuition of Mr. Baldwin proved sound. Overnight almost the entire London Press did a complete somersault. Broadcast was the happy thought that Britain was again to shoulder her white man's burden, this time to impose the Pax Britannica upon the Saar. As one London evening...
...behavior of Great Britons appeared fantastic last week was the League's Australian-born Saar Commissioner, Mr. Geoffrey Knox. When he asked last March for what he suddenly got last week, namely a League Army to police the Saar, everyone in Geneva sat on him, none harder than Sir John Simon...