Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leisure moments to persuade German Foreign Minister Stresemann and Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski, to resume pourparlers for a German-Polish commercial entente which had seemed to be breaking down of late. Once again was seen the peculiar, inherent importance of League sessions-they bring into peaceful personal contact statesmen who might otherwise quarrel over the telegraph...
...What Christian Statesmen are in the pay of Jewish financiers?" Recently Herr Hugo Graefe, potent German landholder, propounded this question in a campaign speech and answered it himself: "My friends, I will tell you one Christian the Jews have bought! Our Foreign Minister [Dr. Gustav Stresemann] has a villa and a castle given him as bribes by Jewish bankers to reveal State secrets and betray the Fatherland...
...foreign secretaries of the great powers desired a World War. The proportion of responsibility attaching to each country and each statesman is a matter of opinion, and complete agreement on these proportions will never be reached. I entirely agree with the famous doctrine of Lloyd George that the statesmen of Europe did not mean war in 1914 but 'stumbled and staggered into...
...France and Germany were bad; but no worse in 1914 than they had often been during preceding decades. The tension between Austria and Russia on the other hand had become more and more acute, since the annexation of Bosnia in 1908, and the great question which interested the statesmen and people of both countries was as to who should be Ross in the Balkans. It was a struggle not for territory but for prestige, and in the East of Europe prestige was one of the main foundations of powers...
...Russian note then matched almost line for line the anti-British outburst of Soviet statesmen with similar virulently anti-Russian utterances from Winston Churchill, Lord Birkenhead, and Colonel Amery. Shrewd, M. Litvinov, pointed out that no Anglo-Russian "agreement exists limiting the liberty of the press or speech within the boundaries of either country...