Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer continued: "Our aims are not unlimited. . . . The Sudetenland is the last territorial claim I have to make in Europe, but it is one on which I shall not yield. . . . This Herr Benes was at Versailles and assured European statesmen that there was such a thing as a 'Czechoslovak nation.' Those geographically ignorant statesmen omitted to check up on his statements- instead of realizing that there is no such thing as a Czechoslovak nation...
...Horace has hitherto declined invitations to visit Continental statesmen with the dry comment: "Thank you, but I am not one of those Englishmen who travel abroad," never dreaming he would have to fly to Berchtesgaden fortnight ago, to Godesberg last week...
With other powers showing a strong disposition to climb aboard this bandwagon before the League Assembly adjourned, typical Geneva statesmen foresaw two important developments: 1) the League will not by "automatic" or other means impose the sanctions against Japan which China demanded fortnight ago; 2) Germany may possibly return, in case war is averted now, to ultimate League membership...
PARIS--European statesmen, snatched from the brink of war by the four-power conference at Munich, tonight, were understood to be considering a formula for liquidating the two out- standing irritants of the political horizon--Italy's conquest of Etheopia and the Spanish Civil...
While Europe with shaking knees found itself last week on the brink of war (see p. 17), and foreign statesmen hoped that a firm U. S. attitude would help avert it, President Roosevelt performed change of face as sudden, though perhaps not as effective, as that which upset the World Monetary & Economic Conference in 1933. Apparently fearing that his and Secretary Hull's recent, repeated condemnations of autarchies and aggressors too definitely aligned the U. S. with England and France if Germany provoked a war, Mr. Roosevelt suddenly lashed out at "some" U. S. editors and columnists. He said...