Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler, always somewhat feminine in contrast to the Italian Dictator's pronounced masculinity, gushed to the German Reichstag about "the leader of that great Fascist country, who is such a great friend of mine!" Der Führer continued, "I should like to express to the great Italian statesman in the name of the German people, and my own name, our warmest thanks. We know what Mussolini's attitude has meant to Germany in these days. . . . Indissoluble friendship! The land and frontiers of this friend are to us inviolable. The Italian people know that the German nation supports...
...Prague the utmost consternation reigned in Cabinet circles. Dr. Benes, "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," was quite able to add up the Stalin blood purge, the Chamberlain tribulations, the Blum uncertainties and the collapse of Austria. Smart, quick, the President rushed into effect measures he hoped would insure peace between Czechoslovakia and Germany. The 3,200,000 Czechoslovaks who are radically German and whose principal leader is blatant Nazi Konrad Henlein-involved only a few months ago in a homosexual scandal -are to be given by a bill announced by the Cabinet last week the right to fill...
...satellite of France, remained as a possible source of armed assistance to the Austrian Government. But, perhaps because Czechoslovaks fear they may be next on Vegetarian Adolf Hitler's menu, the attitude of Prague "in the circumstances" last week was to lie low. "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," famed Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes, could think of nothing better than to observe: "In spite of the great importance of material strength . . . the most important forces are spiritual." After all. one bold remark by Benes might cause Hitler to speed German troops toward Prague, as well as Vienna...
...Good Germans." As Chancellor in succession to his murdered friend Dollfuss, Kurt von Schuschnigg saw 13 Nazis hanged. Soon he was recognized by those shrewd judges of character, Pope Pius and Premier Mussolini, as a statesman of commanding powers. He proved his ability by maneuvering out of the Austrian Vice-Chancellorship famed fun-loving Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, who once had an Austrian private political army of 125,000, aspired to the Austrian Throne. Pious Kurt von Schuschnigg long wished to restore "His Most Apostolic Majesty Kaiser Otto von Habsburg." This week, however, Otto's goose...
...take it from me that I have no precise instructions from the President," he confided. "You can't expect me to develop into a statesman overnight. . . . By 1940 I believe there will be regular passenger and freight airlines across the Atlantic, and I would be willing to be the first passenger myself. . . . Right now the average American isn't as interested in foreign affairs as he is in how he's going to eat and whether his insurance is good. Some, maybe, even are more interested in how Casey Stengel's Boston Bees are going...