Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan we have been working on is as much a product of British thought as American and most of the other nations contributed suggestions. . . . I personally have never been able to understand why statesmen rather than bankers were summoned to this conference. Perhaps it was thought that statesmen are not so busy as bankers...
France did not forget. Even before the statesmen in London had packed their portfolios, the French Foreign Office sent a message to Geneva. Officially it was an answer to the League's request for information and suggestions to facilitate the approaching conference. Actually it was a statement and a warning to the rest of the world, setting forth very clearly France's position on disarmament. The French seemed to have Messrs. Hoover and Stimson much in mind. To make sure that there would be no misunderstanding of their position in English-speaking countries the English text...
Forced Smiles. The tenseness of the situation was obvious. Editors and statesmen all over Europe adopted the old U. S. device of elaborate optimism in the face of a crisis...
...accepting German marks on this train?" asked a correspondent when the statesmen had left...
...London, the Hoover Moratorium committee of experts, almost forgotten by newshawks, met and immediately adjourned. There was nothing for them to do while Europe's statesmen remained cloistered in Paris. Just what was happening in Paris reporters did not learn, though the air was thick with rosy generalities...