Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emile Francqui departed for the U.S. three weeks ago. "Shylock," "the soul of Shylock" people muttered in the streets of Brussels, and; press set down the opprobrious words in black and white. The contemptuous words were not spoken of any of the departing gentlemen, all honored as able statesmen or financiers in their country sneering epithet was applied to an intangible person, that daddy-long-legs of symbolical figures, Uncle...
...Briand, looking older, slightly more rotund and as disreputable as ever he did, descended from his Pullman car and was met with effusive greetings from his British confrere. These urbanities over, the two statesmen posed for the ubiquitous cameramen, beaming and cracking jokes in French. "Non," he had nothing to say for publication. The two custodians of their respective countries' foreign policies exchanged smiles and followed them up with an exchange of hearty farewells. M. Briand sped away to the Hyde Park Hotel in Knightsbridge. Mr. Chamberlain betook him to his residence in Morpeth Mansions...
...cups of tea, is a sportsman who has made an enormous reputation for his tea by knowing how to be beaten. Last week, in the famed Shamrock IV, he heard a pistol crack and scurried past a buoy at Cowes, England. Pennants crackled stiffly at mastheads; admirals, generals, statesmen, literary lions, captains of industry, peers and parasites eyed the heeling white boats, for it was the first day of the famed Cowes Week, and the King's cutter with Prince Henry and the Duke of Connaught aboard was racing against Sir Thomas and the others. Doubtless in the gnarled...
...perpetuate the Yorktown battlefield where Lord Cornwallis surrendered. British Ambassador Sir Esmé Howard, speaking recently, referred to a visit to the battlefield: "I felt that all bitterness, thank God, was past between us. I felt that just as our heritage of poets and sailors, of philosophers, lawgivers and statesmen belongs to you, so the greatness of your people is a greatness of which I, as an Englishman, have a right to be proud...
Major General Sir Frederick Maurice (with monocle), former Director of Operations on the British Imperial General Staff, observed that European statesmen feared their own armies as the potential instruments of their downfall or as the probable cause of a greater war. Reduction and limitation of armaments was the problem which Europe had to face...