Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once again the halls of the League of Nations resounded to the noise of "great argument" about peace, security, arbitration, etc.; but, as ever, the assembled statesmen "came out by the same door" as in they went...
...most marked. He was to be seen everywhere not only with his wife, but with his daughter, Edith, to whom he was warmly attached. In his work he was unusually tactful, firm and independent. His genius for diplomacy, his skill and farsightedness won him the respect of statesmen far beyond the frontiers of Germany. Simple and unaffected in speech, he exuded an earnestness and sincerity that marked him as capable and efficient and endeared him to all. Coming to Washington two years ago as the successor of Dr. Wiedfeldt, who refused to lower the German flag at the death...
...last week's sessions of the Eighth Assembly and the forty, sixth meeting of the Council of the League of Nations, the note in his neighbor's eye disturbed each of the assembled statesmen. Much talk, some of it evasive, and little action proved that suspicion inbred for centuries cannot be bred out in less than a decade. But able critics agreed that discussions, however abortive, were better than the insidious silences, punctuated by subtle urbanity, of the old diplomacy...
...Statesmen. Among the famed statesmen noted at Geneva: Richard William Alan Onslow, Earl of Onslow, calm and ponderous. Next to him was observed his boss, natty Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Minister...
...enigmatic, dishevelled, brilliant Aristide Briand, French Foreign Minister, caused some comment. It was feared that, as on a previous occasion when "eye trouble" was said to be an excuse, political snarls in Paris were detaining him; for it seemed inevitable that he would be sought by German statesmen and persuaded to make a promise relative to early evacuation of the Rhineland. At the same time it was realized that M. Briand has nothing to promise, the French Cabinet having already expressed its willingness to reduce the forces of occupation by no more than...