Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know that the President of Czechoslovakia is Professor Masaryk. Obviously Slovakia must have seceded from Czecho, and of course the secessionists had chosen another professor as their President. The capitol of the new state appeared to be Trencsen, and why not? The whole thing seemed so natural to the statesmen of drowsy Bangkok that they thought it superfluous to drop a cable query Europeward...
...today, in the 73rd year of his vigorous age, he is the personal and implicitly trusted diplomatic representative of Dictator Benito Mussolini. "Order!" rapped Chairman Vittorio Scialoja, as his judicial forbears have rapped for generations, and around the big U-shaped council table there came to order some 14 statesmen, including Europe's famed "Big Three": Sir Austen Chamberlain (Britain); M. Aristide Briand (France); Dr. Gustav Stresemann (Germany). Almost at once it appeared that the chief thing all these assembled Excellencies wished to accomplish was the avoidance of controversial subjects. They positively dared not risk having debates...
...deportation or exchange of populations had been applied. The idea is, in a theoretical, way, an excellent one, but its application is of necessity so harsh, amounting practically to the eradication of peoples long resident in certain localities, that it was probably never seriously considered by any of the statesmen assembled at Parts. In any case the continued existence of minorities was inevitable...
...After all, the League Council is the organ of the larger powers and in its discussions the conflicting interests of these powers are bound to make themselves felt. The minorities, at least, are convinced that there is little to be hoped for from the secret pourparlers of the leading statesmen. In 1926 Germany was admitted to the League and given a seat on the Council, and it was expected by the German minorities that Germany would take the lead and press the question. Germany has, in fact, come to be looked upon as the champion of the oppressed nationalities because...
...sooner had the Utrecht story broken last week, than it was declared by Foreign Office statesmen in Brussels and Paris to have been "entirely falsified." This, however, did not satisfy Queen Wilhelmina's large, stiff-necked, smugly garbed Foreign Minister, Jonkheer Beelaerts Van Bloklund (TIME, Aug. 27), long since nicknamed by correspondents "Blunt Beelaerts." From London, where he chanced to be last week, the Jonkheer instructed Her Majesty's diplomatic representatives in France and Belgium to demand official confirmation or denial of Dagblad's charges. Rarely has a news "scare story" been taken so seriously...