Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peace settlement. The attitude of Italy and Belgium to the Ruhr question, combined with a visit of the Belgian Foreign Minister, M. Jaspar, to Milan, where he conferred with Mussolini, make the diplomatic smoke screen fairly transparent. It is the most unlikely thing in the world that the Belgian statesman came expressly from Brussels to exchange nonsensical urbanities with the Italian premier over an afternoon cup of tea. There was a reason, and it was to discuss the German peace proposition. The offer which Stinnes made to Mussolini, and which he discussed with Jaspar, was Allied participation in German industry...
Cast in a Victorian mold, Louis N. Parker's play of a Victorian statesman, whose vision raised both his country and himself above the throttling influences of the period, was enthusiastically received Monday evening at the Copley. The play, so the program states, is a romantic comedy. And, indeed, this description is in some respects more accurate than calling it a historical comedy would be, for although the interest centers about an actual historical figure in the act of accomplishing an undertaking of historic importance, the material has been so treated that the result frequently resembles more the conventional melodrama...
...increased difficulties of more modern days, has kept faithfully the best traditions of his great family. It is, perhaps, interesting to note that he is a great-grandson of a grandson of Charles II. The first Cecil to be Prime Minister was "the Great Lord Burleigh," the one statesman who never lost the confidence of Queen Elizabeth...
General Oshima was Minister of War in the Okuma and Terauchi cabinets. He has had wide experience both as soldier and statesman, and is an avowed enemy of Baron Kato, present Premier...
...Majestic, on which an eminent British statesman, Lord Robert Cecil, arrives-not on a mission; no, nor lecture tour...