Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with France. So pikestaff plain are the advantages of a sub-Channel railway that last week even that ruddy, insular, industrial squire, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, took up sturdy cudgels in its defense. When the House of Commons reassembled last week after a month-long holiday, the Squire-Statesman said...
...bustling session. Since new blood was obviously needed after half a century of stagnation, the Comite called in and elected as their president kinetic M. Yves Le Trocquer, recently French Minister of Public Works (1920-25). As Vice President they chose M. Jules Cambon, distinguished statesman and brother of beloved Paul Cambon (1843-1524) who was for 22 years French Ambassador to His Britannic Majesty. When the Committee adjourned to banquet, Jules Cambon, raised a sparkling glass and cried: "On the day the tunnel is completed England and France will have found the real road to peace...
Dense white fog settled around the chill towers and spires of Chartres, billowed over hoary ramparts, poured down into the valley. Approaching, speeding up the valley road into the fog, came a silent, richly glinting limousine, the car of M. Joseph Caillaux, famed "Statesman with Nine Lives...
Ambassadors and Ministers accredited at Berlin received, last week, an aide memoire from the Foreign Office, reminding them that Germany's greatest statesman Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, "can no longer accept evening invitations...
...that Dr. Stresemann's personal physician is always closeted with him privily for five or ten minutes before he makes a public appearance or speech of any kind. Intimates of the House of Stresemann profess to know that the doctor spends these five-minute periods in reminding the statesman that he must curb his temper, eschew his favorite fiery oratory, conserve his strength...