Word: spokesmaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diplomatically speaking the formula was a masterpiece. But would Germany sign? The decision was not really up to Chancellor von Papen at Lausanne, but to his "Cabinet of Monocles" at Berlin, dominated by intriguing Lieut.-General Kurt von Schleicher, Minister of Defense. Last week the Government spokesman at Berlin made the Chancellor look like a figurehead, and a silly one at that, by flatly disclaiming von Papen's amazing proposal at Lausanne for a Franco-German military alliance (TIME, July 4). "The Chancellor," snapped the spokesman, "was only voicing a personal dream...
...there was no showdown last week in Geneva. The Japanese Ambassador did not utter his instructions, which were made known at Tokyo by the Foreign Office spokesman. Therefore they could be changed. President Hoover, through his Geneva representative and close friend Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson, made every effort to get his program debated by the Disarmament Conference, knowing that Italy, Spain and many a minor nation would champion it warmly...
...Japan the Foreign Office spokesman said bluntly that the "main reason" why his Government would have none of the Hoover proposals last week was the refusal of Washington to assent to what Japan has done in Manchuria. I ask you to remember," said Japanese War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, tut-tutting the Hoover proposals, "that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible...
...word declaration on Prohibition. President Hoover would not stand for outright Repeal as Connecticut's Senator Bingham ardently demanded. Defying a majority of his own New York delegation, which wanted to sweep the 18th Amendment off the books. Secretary of the Treasury Mills became the White House spokesman in drafting a compromise plank. For 24 hours the Resolutions Committee wrote, scratched and wrote again until it perfected a declaration which it could telephone to Washington and get approved...
Socialist Program. Throughout the week Don Carlos Davila talked of "progressive Socialism," admitted the backwardness of Chilean workers, observed brightly: "However, the Army and Navy are Socialistic." Spokesman for the Army & Navy in the new Cabinet is Irish-blooded Defense Minister Col. Marmaduke Grove (pronounced...