Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twenty years unceasing strife between Arabs and Jews has harassed the statesmen of Europe and the Near East. In her proposal to create an independent Arab-controlled Palestine, Great Britain has arrived at a feasible solution of this seemingly insoluble post-war racial problem. Although granting the Moslems their ardently desired national state, England intends to insist that Jewish minority rights in the Holy Land be maintained...
...chairs, whispered together. "Sit down," they muttered. "Shut him up!" But the speaker went right on and said his say, for he was a veteran in perfectly good standing. More, he was Captain William S. Ortman, chief of the Capitol police, a body whose opinions on the behavior of statesmen should be intimately informed but is seldom solicited. He had attended several Dies hearings and "didn't think it was fair to let people get up and talk without proper evidence, so I stopped going. A lot of those witnesses were mentally ten years...
Biggest headache to foreign statesmen is trying to figure out what Americans think of them and the wars they are thinking of fighting...
Surprise. At this point both France and Britain got an unpleasant surprise. Generalissimo Franco, it appeared, did not prize British and French recognition as highly as British and French statesmen thought he would. His motto was: "Recognition first, negotiations second." As to declaring an amnesty, he wanted the Loyalists' "unconditional surrender...
Much the same sense of relief was evident last week after the Dictator finished his annual Reichstag address (TIME, Feb. 6). Because he announced no troop movements, made no mention of forthcoming invasions and delivered his address in rather more subdued tones than usual, many correspondents, editorial writers, even statesmen called the speech "mild." Those who took the trouble to wade through the long, formless address, however, discovered that it was actually one of the most sensational and threatening talks ever made by the head of a State. Excerpts...