Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smuggled last December from Italy across Austria and into Hungary, where they arrived on New Year's Day. This smugglery (a flagrant violation of the Treaty of Trianon under which Hungary is disarmed) has caused Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania, to demand a League investigation. Therefore, last week, Continental statesmen were electrified when it was announced, at Budapest, that the machine gun parts had been ordered broken up and would be sold as junk. Never did a suspected criminal more brazenly proceed to destroy "Exhibit A" before the very eyes of a judge not yet quite ready to hear...
...there a joker? Statesmen nodded, but beamed nonetheless approvingly upon the crisp, new document. It does not except from arbitration nearly as many subjects as did the treaty which it replaces, the Franco-U. S. arbitration pact of 1908. Not to be arbitrated under the old treaty were matters involving "national honor," "vital interests," or "a third state"-that is to say the exceptions were so broad as practically to permit either state to refuse arbitration of any case which it did not want arbitrated. The new treaty text, temporarily withheld from publication last week, was announced to provide...
...power stepped, last week, the first so-called "Labor" Cabinet of Norway, a group of Socialist and Communist statesmen whose political complexions are if not red extremely pink. Their first act was to propose that military training shall be abandoned this year, and that the State shall undertake a national monopoly to buy and distribute grain. Has Norway then "gone Red?" To know her people is to understand how laughable is such a suggestion...
...expert in armaments. As long as things are left to him, we can expect armaments and more armaments. Only statesmen, who know how to keep the naval experts in their places, who strike out body, with their eyes on a common policy, can give the world what it requires...
President Lowell will extend the welcome of the University to Nobile Giacomo De Martino. Italian Ambassador to the United States, at a luncheon given by the Circolo Italiano in honor of the statesmen at the Harvard Union at 1 o'clock today, it was announced last night by J. J. Faggiano '29, president of the Circolo Italiano. Following the meal Ambassador De Martino will be conducted about the University...