Word: speech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Optimists called II Duce's speech "conciliatory." No one took it to be very warlike...
France. Across the Channel in Paris a speech by Premier Edouard Daladier, who has virtually taken over the conduct of foreign relations from appeasement-seeking Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, got unanimous cheers in the Chamber of Deputies the like of which has not been heard in that dissension-ridden House for many a month. After speaking of immense mobilizations in neighboring countries, M. Daladier scornfully cried...
Axis. If Fuhrer Hitler had any answer to this tough talk it was to announce a spectacular tour of inspection of Germany's defenses along the Rhine on the French and Belgian borders. Dictator Mussolini also inspected fortifications along the French border, stopping here & there to make a speech. At Turin he said that...
...Chateau Frontenac. In Montreal, original seating arrangements for a civic banquet had to be altered and round tables replaced when officials belatedly realized that no one may sit with his back to the King. At the Chateau gold-plated microphones were installed for the King's first speech. Towns along the St. Lawrence heaped bonfires, decked railway stations. At Callander, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe got his morning coat out of mothballs and the Dionne quintuplets practiced pretty curtsies in preparation for their trip to Toronto to meet King George and Queen Elizabeth. Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir (Author John Buchan...
...Poles want no mediation at Geneva, either. Danzig affairs are handled at the League by a committee of three: Britain, France and Sweden. The League of Nations High Commissioner for Danzig is Dr. Karl Burckhardt, a Swiss professor of law whom Führer Hitler, in his last speech, called "incidentally a man of extraordinary tact." Dr. Burckhardt's "tact" consists largely of a do-nothing silence. Unlike his predecessor, fiery Sean Lester of Eire, who barked long and hard about the Nazis' repeated violations of Danzig's Constitution, Commissioner Burckhardt has uttered public words in Danzig...