Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five whole years, placing him less than a decade later in the Diplomatic Service. Unfortunate Victoria! She could not know that in 1929?in fact this month?onetime Page Ponsonby would publish a most scathing and compactly venomous report exposing lies and shady tricks used by Allied and British statesmen...
...method of demonstration and of proof adopted by Queen-Empress Victoria's onetime Page of Honor is to range widely and exhaustively over the material of post-War documents and disclosures, culling testimony from the very statesmen under whom the War lies were forged and used as deadly weapons. Citing chapter and verse, page and line, Laborite Ponsonby produces the following five "proofs" of his above five assertions...
...bands played, no soldiers paraded, when President-Elect Hoover arrived back in Washington after leaving the Utah at Hampton Roads. Herbert Hoover Jr. met Mr. Hoover at the harbor, and Dr. Work, Senator Shortridge of California and a few minor statesmen were at the station. The President-Elect, arriving in Washington, went to the White House and was closeted with the President for a half hour. When they emerged, the President and President-Elect posed for photographs, and Mr. Hoover was plied with newsmen's questions. He declined to answer queries. "You will have to go to the fountain...
News from a corner of the earth rather remote from these prosperous states would indicate that the best laid plans of those statesmen who framed the Versailles Peace Treaty have once more gone astray. When three subject peoples of the old Austrian Empire were removed from the rule of that country and lumped into the combined Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, it was hoped that the ends of democracy, self-determination, and all the other idealistic phrases current at the time had been served with a finality that would leave everyone happy. But unfortunately the Serbs, who happened...
With these facts firmly in mind it is not difficult to understand why Brazil has demanded for herself a permanent seat on the Council of the League of Nations; and why she withdrew from the League when this legitimate aspiration was denied her (TIME, June 21, 1926). Shrewdly the statesmen of Brazil claim that the League of Nations will continue to be dominated by a selfish little gang of European states, so long as no American nation and no Asiatic nation except Japan is permanently seated on the Council...