Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This exalted spat between two once omnipotent statesmen burst forth when the Earl of Oxford and Asquith, official leader of the Liberal party, set out to give to Lloyd George, Liberal leader by popular consent, a reprimand and dressing down for his pro-Laborite attitude during the great "general strike" (TIME, May 10 to May 24). In a letter released to the press last week the Earl loftily informed Mr. George that he "regretted" the Welshman's conduct in denouncing the Baldwin Government's handling of the strike. More especially the Earl stigmatized Mr. George's refusal to attend...
Geneva was chosen as the location of the school in order to take advantage of the extraordinary opportunities it affords for the study of foreign affairs. Leading statesmen and experts from all countries are frequently in Geneva, and they willingly give of their time to the students. Professor Zimmern also arranges for educators from many countries to give courses, and the secretariat of the League of Nations cooperates readily in the work...
What success cannot be predicted is at least to be hoped for. For, free and open college debating under a comprehensible system is much to be desired. At Oxford, it has made statesmen at Harvard it has as yet made nothing...
Throughout Europe statesmen have been asking: "What authority is to decide whether a given question is one in which the U. S. has or has not interest? May or may not the U. S., under Senate Reservation No. 5, claim an interest in any question whatsoever and so block all action by the World Court, at pleasure...
...matter what formula American statesmen advance, the final outcome of such a process will be the further subordination of Western Europe to domination by American capital...