Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called "Optional Clause" of the World Court protocol, signatories to which bind themselves to accept the arbitral jurisdiction of the Court in all legal disputes. Said Mr. MacDonald: "I am in a position to announce that my Government has decided to sign the optional clause. [Prolonged cheers from statesmen of the minor nations, most of which have signed.] The form of our declaration is now being prepared." Later Prime Minister Aristide Briand said that France, which has adhered with reservations to the Optional Clause, would follow Britain's lead and re-adhere without reservations of any kind...
...Perish!" As he rose to his climax Socialist MacDonald launched on a theme seldom seriously dealt with by League statesmen: Peace in the East. "There is an Old World," he cried, "old in civilization, old in philosophy, old in religion, old in culture, which hitherto has been weak in those material powers that have characterized the Western peoples. But that Old World, wrapped in slumber as we thought, has now become awake . . . and is asking us to grant it ... the freedom we have been nurturing and nourishing for ourselves for so many gen- erations...
...called "Root Formula" under which the U. S. is expected to adhere to the Court at long last (see p. 12). President Hoover sent famed Jurist Root unofficially to Geneva last spring, and he remained there three weeks (TIME, March 18, et seq.), dickering with League and Court statesmen over mutually satisfactory terms of U. S. adherence. As finally drafted and approved the "Root Formula" will permit the U. S. to become one of the Court Powers under an elaborate reservation the substantial meaning of which is: Whenever the World Court is asked to opine on any question, then...
...called the distinguished Prime Minister of that friendly state "poor Jaspar."* Careless of affront to Japan, he spoke of Dr. Mine- ichira Adachi, Chief of the Japanese Delegation, as "the quiet, plaintive Adachi." The whole speech bristled with that same humoring superiority?that air of considering other statesmen mere children? which infuriated the Latin statesmen at The Hague to the point of tantrums and tears...
Senor Gonzalo Robles, who has been Mayor of Tacna City under the Chilean regime, gloomily signed away the municipal buildings, the civic water works, the provincial railways, everything. Across the table Peru's beaming, complacent Foreign Minister Rada y Gamio in effect signed receipts. Both statesmen worked cautiously, inspecting each document minutely ere they autographed it irrevocably. Dawn broke. Presently it was high noon. Still the pen-scratching continued...