Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assembly ballots cast by as many nations, League tellers threw out four as "defective and void." An easy but not spectacular winner, Mr. Kellogg received 30 votes. How many League Council ballots Mr. Kellogg received no Councilmen knew, for their votes are never announced. Bouquets. First of League statesmen to toss a bouquet at Court Judge Kellogg (who business-tripped last week from Washington to Manhattan, en route to his home in St. Paul, Minn.) was French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, co-author of the pact. Cried he: "I cannot forget the great part Mr. Kellogg has taken...
...stuffy League Assembly, hothouse of Europe's statesmen in more senses than one, sprouted suddenly last week a solemn Jack-in-the-Pulpit...
...much to say of the origins of the War, comes to the conclusion that "the war was caused by an unhealthy state of mind in Europe; that state of mind had been created by the amassed unintelligence of international thought from 1878 onwards." As for the British share: "British statesmen are usually blind to their own tendencies, but vividly aware of their own disinclinations. While not knowing what they are doing or what they want to do, they realize quite clearly what they do not want to do, and they are apt to grasp at this negative, and to proclaim...
...Moscow the statesmen of Soviet Russia presumably feel that in declaring the entire agreement and its arbitral structure void they acted in a spirit of goodwill, fairdealing and reasonable interpretation. Their principal overt grudge against Lena for the past several years has been that her mining camps were "centers of counterrevolution and nests of British spies"-a. charge frequently hurled in the Moscow press...
...followers journeyed to Helsingfors by train, motor, horseback and on foot, formed ranks, marched in military formation to the Parliament building, demanded the immediate passage of laws to suppress Communism, and to make the government more economical by halving the number of representatives in Parliament. Statesmen were impressed by the size of Kosola's army. They introduced the bills, failed to get the requisite two-thirds majority, then dissolved the Diet. Vihtori Kosola bided his time, assured of the growth of his power, realizing that the coming general elections (Oct. 1) will have but one issue: the demands of Lapua...