Word: statesmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gold -the Great Hall of the British Foreign Office. At either side three tall windows, dull-bright with winter sunshine. Down the centre a huge table, covered with blue baize and vermilion-splashed by three official despatch boxes. Around the table a group of the most distin- guished statesmen in Europe-all clad in mourning (for England's Dowager Queen). At smaller tables other statesmen and ladies-like- wise in black. At one end of the room eight rows of seats, tiered like a grandstand, for the press. Above and over all, the unearthly white-green glare of mercury...
...away to a secret conference with M. Herriot and M. Briand, who were engaged at the moment chiefly in deciding which, if either of them, should be the next Premier of France (see FRANCE, p. 11.) The shabby, bright-eyed stranger who could command an audience with these famed statesmen at such an hour was none other than M. Georg Tchitcherin, famed political stormy petrel and Foreign Minister to the Soviet Union...
Eleven hungry Penn Statesmen went to Pittsburgh for a Thanksgiving dinner only to have their goose roundly cooked for them. Score: Pittsburgh 23, Penn State...
...clear essential of any system of international law and order. It is a necessary agency for developing international law. It is a valuable aid to the Council of the League of Nations in handling international disputes. It is an ever-ready help in time of trouble to harassed statesmen who are pressed by inflamed opinion and who desire some way out, some forum to go to, some talking point to put forward...
...three years, amendments and changes have been proposed, only to fall to the ground. If the United States alone could build a world court, we should not have to pay regard to how people in other countries think. Some of our statesmen have talked as if that were the case. Professor Brierly, who teaches international law at Oxford, recently said of the amendments in the Senate that "only the eminence of the critics saves them from the suspicion of frivolity." Let us build on what exists, and let us save America from the reproach which our delay is heaping upon...