Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore last week the men in Geneva, the statesmen of 57 nations, had to build almost anew, or fail and leave their Conference a mockery. Up stood a go-getter, before the Conference was quite ready to hear him, and dynamically proposed to build anew. Said he in effect: the Conference had better scrap that confused wad of paper over which European statesmen have fought and contradicted each other for years, the so-called League of Nations Draft Convention for the Disarmament Conference. Instead, the go-getter, M. Andre Tardieu, proposed his plan, the plan of France...
...French journalists, whose deliberately provocative and skillfully insinuated ideas are apt to upset any Conference, got the statesmen at Geneva into a lather by "announcing" the "un-offcial suggestion"' from "high sources" that Japan be entrusted by the League with a mandate over Manchuria. Such journalistic ideas sometimes become facts. But the French press-playboys were so delighted with their furore that they next announced: "Japan is going to be given a mandate over all China...
More anxiously than for months past, financiers and statesmen scanned the state of Europe last week. On the U. S. horizon optimists had discovered pale streaks of hope (see p. 11). Would Europe stand? There was plenty for them to think about. On the credit side, the week passed without any major political disaster. Stock markets in Paris, London and Berlin all continued to rise. With millions in gold coming from India, the pound sterling rose 11? during the week to close at $3.51, highest since November...
...ideals and idealists. In no other life is the prophot so much without honor, not only in his own country but abroad. If the possibility of a United States of Europe is in any way less remote now than it was a decade ago, the chief credit, among contemporary statesmen, probably goes to Aristide Briand. No matter what deviations the exigencies of politics produced, his career as a whole may justly command the gratitude of Europe...
...French statesmen talked wildly of reprisais. Premier Laval wanted to "fight it out at Lausanne," Finance Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin threatened a 15% duty on all German products, an immediate recall of the Bank of France's quarter share in the $100,000,000 emergency credit granted to Germany in June...