Word: spokesmaned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lithuania seemed last week the little nation proudest of its prosperity. "We hardly notice that there is an economic crisis," boasted the Lithuanian Foreign Office spokesman, Dr. Pranas Dailide, in Kovno...
...remarkable. Although the Occidental residents of Shanghai's International Settlement have recently seen whole shiploads of Japanese troops disembark in their Settlement, General Shirakawa took the position last week that all Japanese forces had disembarked outside the Settlement. "The Japanese army hopes," declared the General's official spokesman, "that its sacrificial effort to save the Settlement from gunfire is appreciated...
Next day the Japanese Foreign Office learned that Statesman Stimson had absolutely refused to recognize the puppet régime Japan has set up in Manchuria. Hotly the Foreign Office's press spokesman burst out: "The United States cannot rob us of the fruits of our victory by withholding recognition of the new Manchurian State...
...eyed Sir John Simon walked over to Observer Wilson and publicly whispered in his ear. This British courtesy and the general line of Sir John's efforts so pleased Mr. Stimson that next day he told Washington correspondents that now "all nations can speak with the same voice." A spokesman for Observer Wilson said that he was "very grateful" to Sir John. For what...
...some exceedingly strange bedfellows into the League bed, but at the same time he kept Mother Britain's apron clear, no matter what may happen. Blame for the policy which the League proceeded to adopt was promptly heaped by Tokyo upon Washington. "Mr. Stimson," said the Japanese Foreign Office spokesman acidly, "is leading the League by the nose...