Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Führerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. The three visiting statesmen at that historic conference were Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Premier Edouard Daladier of France, and Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy. But by all odds the dominating figure at Munich was the German host, Adolf Hitler...
...lack of materials, the Germany Army has become a formidable machine which could probably be beaten only by a combination of opposing armies. As testimony to his nation's puissance, Führer Hitler could look back over the year and remember that besides receiving countless large-bore statesmen (Mr. Chamberlain three times, for instance), he paid his personal respects to three kings (Sweden's Gustaf, Denmark's Christian, Italy's Vittorio Emanuele) and was visited by two (Bulgaria's Boris, Rumania's Carol?not counting Hungary's Regent, Horthy...
Many other British statesmen have been called just as bad or worse in the German press (notably Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Alfred Duff Cooper), but last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Lord Baldwin's successor, decided to defend his old Cabinet colleague. Invited to deliver the main speech at the 50th anniversary dinner of London's Foreign Press Association, which includes in its membership German as well as U. S., French, Italian, Polish, Latin American correspondents, Mr. Chamberlain, in preparing his speech, inserted amidst paragraphs of amiable generalities one moderate sentence of criticism...
...Lithuania, her statesmen feverishly tried to make friends with the Reich to save what pieces there were left to save. Memel, a district of 1.099 square miles on the Baltic, formerly part of East Prussia, was detached from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, was taken by Lithuania in 1923. The port of Memel, with 38.545 inhabitants, contains iron foundries, ship-building yards, breweries, chemical plants. Because it is the country's only developed outlet to the sea, its formal appropriation by Germany would be almost irreparable to Lithuania. But Lithuania had some friends left, however ineffective. British Prime...
David Worcester '28, Senior Tutor of Lowell House, gave a brief introductory talk and introduced six undergraduate speakers who read papers dealing with contemporary views held on evolution by biologists, statesmen, and philosophers...