Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again to Geneva hurried the tired statesmen who gather periodically 'round a green-topped horseshoe table and become the Council of the League of Nations. Looming, last week, for their consideration were the embroiled affairs of two minor dictators: Prime Minister Augustine Valdemaras of Lithuania, and Prime Minister Josef Pilsudski, erratic Pole. Status Quo. Marshal Pilsudski insisted, last week in Warsaw, that he had positive knowledge of recent Lithuanian mobilization against Poland. Commenting to flabbergasted reporters, he charged that Premier Valdemaras of Lithuania is a "man whose proper home is an insane asylum . . . absolutely unaccountable for his acts...
Significance. Although a phrase in the new treaty defines as one of its objects "the maintenance of peace and tranquility," few statesmen could construe its major clauses otherwise than a loud war-threat to nations which might conceivably wish to attack Italy or Albania: a tiny Adriatic republic, mountainous, pestilence-ridden, and shaken early this year by a devastating earthquake. Since Italy can expect no substantial aid from so puny and impotent an ally, it became interesting to speculate on why the pact signed last week constitutes "one of the greatest strokes of diplomacy yet achieved" by Il Duce...
...distinguished visitors were met at the station by the leaders of the Austrian governmental hierarchy. A state luncheon followed, at which the German statesmen were formally introduced to Dr. Michael Hainisch, President of the Austrian Republic. In the evening the Chancellor, Dr. Ignaz Seipel, opened the old Imperial Foreign Office, also known as the Ballplatz, for an official reception...
...secure Vienna as an ally at Geneva, it was nevertheless mooted that the real objects were to discuss the anschluss (or union of Austria and Germany) and a preliminary economic entente. Despite denials that these subjects were not broached, it was pointed out that two such distinguished German statesmen, overburdened by the pressure of work, would not make the journey to Vienna for the simple object of discussing a mutual League policy. The denials were therefore classified as ordinary diplomatic white lies...
...Since Statesmen Quezon and Osmena had not come to plead outright for independence, nor try to influence the appointment of a successor to the late Governor General Leonard Wood* There was little else for him to discuss with President Coolidge, except to assure him that Major General Douglas MacArthur,* the President's recent appointee as Commanding General of the Philippines, would be welcome, and that the Philippine Legislature would soon pass on appropriations and appointments sent to it for confirmation by Acting Governor General Eugene A. Gilmore. The conversation which they had traveled 10,000 miles to seek lasted...