Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five weeks diplomats and statesmen have been making amiable sounds at the London Naval Conference. Last week, compliments over, the Admirals were heard.* Not one spoke directly. At a conference whose avowed purpose is world peace and the reduction of naval armaments, Admirals have had to take back seats, but the Admirals spoke to the Statesmen, and the Statesmen, Admiralty-primed, brought forward the technical demands, the technical objections of their various navies. The real battles of the conference began...
...world, but a total naval ratio of 3-3-2 with Britain and the U. S. Observers were aghast, saw the possibility that instead of reducing armaments, Britain and the U. S. might have to indulge in a billion dollars worth of naval ship building. Admirals and statesmen conferred, President Hoover hurried north from Florida (see p. 13). At the last minute Prime Minister Tardieu dropped a hint. If Britain) and the U. S. would sign a security pact, guaranteeing not to supply food or munitions to any aggressor nation in a war with France, the French Government would...
...Iceland we look upon businessmen with the same skepticism with which literary men are regarded in some other countries. . . . The ambition of every genuine young Icelander is to become a literary man. . . . Our most important statesmen have all been literary men?poets, authors, historians and educators...
...Greatest of living Icelandic statesmen is Jonas Jonsson, "The Mussolini of the North," who is Minister of Justice and Ecclesiastics and of course a "literary man." Like Il Duce he is said to have a jealous eye upon the Crown, not with a view to seizing it for himself but with intent to make Iceland a republic. Today the King of Iceland is also King Christian X of Denmark. But eager Icelandic-Americans explain: "Iceland is completely independent of Denmark. It is like two corporations in America, one may be a silk mill and the other an iron mine...
...Parley, the Wesleyan annual discussion, an invitational affair, is to be held this year on American Business and Government. If the flery duel between Norman Thomas and Admiral Plunkett at the 1928 conference on War is any criterion, the impending and more pertinent argument on domestic conditions between lending statesmen and commercialists should be productive of an excellent display of pyrotechnics...