Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov frankly expressed his doubts about the sincerity of the British Government's desire to stop Adolf Hitler on all fronts. Last week, from the lips of highly placed British statesmen themselves, he had plenty of evidence to support these doubts...
...appeasers," of Britain and France, he had nothing but scorn. He recalled that British and French statesmen (such as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Premier Edouard Daladier) had once glorified "the successes of the ill-starred Munich agreement," and now he questioned whether they had really changed at heart. Some correspondents wondered if the Soviet's price for Russian cooperation with France and Britain was the political heads of Appeasers Chamberlain and Daladier...
Last week, the Pope made his first public declaration concerning his peace efforts: "Toward the beginning of last month we thought it timely, after mature deliberation, to make known to some statesmen of the great European nations the anxiety the situation was causing us at that moment. . . . We received assurances of good will and of determination to maintain peace...
None of the "statesmen" was named. Neither the Anglo-French lineup, which lost its shirt last time it sat down at a conference table with Herr Hitler, nor the militant Fascist powers warmed to Papal intervention. But the Pope has evidently not given up hope for a Vatican get-together, as he conferred with British Minister to the Vatican Francis D. G. Osborne and sent messages to London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Warsaw. What he said to Minister Osborne remained a secret...
...fourth man of the party had an entirely different outlook on the world. He, the son of a maker of French bread and pastry, had gone in to sit in conference with Europe's biggest three statesmen. The occasion should have crowned his career. But he came out morosely. He knew he had taken a terrific licking...