Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since Stanley Baldwin said that Great Britain's frontier is no longer the white cliffs of Dover but the wimpling Rhine (TIME, Aug. 13, 1934) have Berlin statesmen been so vexed at London as they were last week. Reason: His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for War, the Rt. Hon. Alfred Duff-Cooper, had hied himself to Paris and there made a speech in which he told Frenchmen...
Everyone, including Mr. Sato, agreed that of course the Lausanne Treaty is to be torn up. Elected chairman of the Conference was Stanley Melbourne Bruce, one of the gallant Australians whom the Turks trounced at Gallipoli. Handsome Mr. Bruce, now High Commissioner of Australia in London, was gravely wounded during the slaughter of his countrymen by the Turks. Last week he asked Dr. Aras to please be considerate about the graves of Australian War dead in excavating for Dardanelles fortifications. This the swarthy, squint-eyed little Turk politely promised, patting the stalwart, pink-cheeked Australian reassuringly on the back...
...There was never any intention of stopping Mussolini!" was Opposition Leader Attlee's blanket charge against the National Government of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. "In the background was always the idea that Italy might be needed for an alliance against someone else. The result was that Sanctions never had a trial...
...spectators at Ascot last week broke the first tradition. William Woodward's Omaha, 1935 U. S. champion three-year-old, failed by a nose to break the second. First prize went to Lord Stanley's filly, Quashed...
...Britain's Foreign Secretary who has led agitation for League sanctions against Italy is (1 Lord Eustace Percy, 2 Anthony Eden, 3 Sir Samuel Hoare, 4 Sir John Simon, 5 Stanley Baldwin...