Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignified President of "turning his back to Republicans" and you insinuate that Hindenburg has appointed a Chancellor who conspired in the War to blow up the Welland Canal. Germany has enough difficulties of its own and Journalism can cooperate in fostering international comity by emphasizing good qualities in statesmen and not parading old skeletons. I introduced Papen as my successor in Washington in January 1914. Then I said to the late General Leonard Wood that Papen was not only a dashing soldier but also a diplomat. The alleged conspiracy to blow up the Welland Canal is one of the incidents...
Berlin's Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung took a similar view, denounced Anglo-French secret diplomacy and asked, "What is the use to us of the true blue eyes of English statesmen and their protestations? In the end England and France have always got together and we were the dupes...
Paradox: although France holds the largest store of monetary gold ever amassed in Europe, and although five-sevenths of the world's new gold is being mined in the British Empire, both French and British statesmen are agreed that they can pay their debts to the U. S. only to the extent that Germany pays them Reparations (see below). They cannot (i.e. will not) pay out of the stupendous gold stocks they hold and produce. The Allies seized from beaten Germany such of her colonies as produced gold. Today the Fatherland simply does not produce the bright metal...
...inducing the Lausanne Conference to come to some sort of an agreement last week belonged to snowy-haired, silver-tongued James Ramsay MacDonald who suffered agonizing headaches from overworking his weak eyes. When the long grind of 24 days ended, climaxed by 60 hours of almost ceaseless negotiation, statesmen and correspondents gave way completely to their emotions...
...Peace on Earth. . . ." Such are the facts, but the motives and emotions of the statesmen at Lausanne last week did them credit. So many conferences since the War have ended in nothing at all. It was an historic moment when the Chancellor of Germany, having battled the whole night for a clause wiping out what his people call the "War guilt lie," finally gave in at 3 p. m. saying...