Word: statecraft
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...Addis Ababa remains before Mussolini can stalk into the League of Nations chambers and brag of a complete victory. Though most experts have doubted the economic value of the prize, no one can deny that the rout of the Emperer has cut away the last prop from the tottering statecraft of Geneva...
Taxing the German Government and Judiciary with "avowed abolition" of the "corner stones of judicial morality," the onetime High Commissioner of the League of Nations goes far toward confirming Adolf Hitler's conviction that one of the Realmleader's greatest and most German strokes of statecraft was to lead the Fatherland out of the League. With Geneva thus in effect shut out of German affairs, Germans, on Mr. McDonald's showing, are reveling today in a carnival of race pride, race prejudice and exaltation of race...
...Secretary Ickes called in newshawks, pulled out the stenographic report of his previous press conference, tried to pin the blame for headline troubles on the reporters. He was, he said, opposed to shipments of '"munitions," not "materials" of war to Italy. Blissfully unaware that in the language of statecraft "munitions of war" is the phrase used to denote oil and other war materials as distinct from cannon, machine guns and other "implements" of war, he gave the Press clearly to understand that he had no intention of stopping oil exports...
Taking the pen without a flicker, sardonic Premier Laval wrote as his precious thought of the moment, "10%." Then, scribbling his autograph beneath, he strolled out as pleased with himself as only a French statesman can be when he knows that France is not only acclaiming his heavy statecraft but will soon be chuckling at his light...
...kingdom of Hart & Porter, the King (Melville Cooper) yearns not for feats of statecraft but to be able to perform tricks of magic. The Queen (Mary Boland) yearns for the handsome biceps of Charles Rausmiller, the cinema's Mowgli. The Prince and Princess yearn respectively for a night-club dancer and an itinerant playwright. On the eve of the King's jubilee, the pressure of boredom sends them all off to satisfy their various yearnings...