Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...today looms Adolf Hitler in the minds of Europe's statesmen that Der Führer's habit of always picking Saturday as the time suddenly to throw his weight about has caused the Continent's major stock exchanges to remain closed every Saturday-just in case the No.1 Nazi should upset prices...
Another gauge of the Realmleader's bigness this year was the recent scramble of statesmen, as soon as they heard that he was going to convene the Reichstag to make speeches of appeasement, conciliation and even flattery. In thus buttering Der Führer, immaculate British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden led (TIME, Jan. 25). He was followed by French Premier Leon Blum, who as a Socialist and a Jew doubly hates the Nazis. And last week the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, inflexible Neville Chamberlain, who is perhaps to become the next Prime Minister after the Coronation...
That the art of eating has gone the way of the art of glass blowing was made plain by such order lists as the one above which is just part of the menu for a 1468 dinner tendered two English statesmen. Or, if you are still hungry just peruse the following food which required 62 chefs to prepare for a contemporary spread. Six wild bulls, 104 oxen, 400 swine, 1000 mutton, 1200 quail, 304 stags, and 3000 pigs were among the delicate offered to the gathering of 4000. Just what percentage of the 4000 had another little snack at bedtime...
...usual tall glasses of smoking hot tea without which ponderous Judge Vassily Jakovlevich Ulrich and pouncing Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky could never have got through all the years in which they have gradually worked up from Communist obscurity to the reputation of having convicted and sentenced to Death more statesmen than any other team of justice in the world. There was even plenty of tea for the prisoners, and the Soviet Supreme Court has always functioned amid a blue haze of Russian cigaret smoke...
...nice long talks in which many Chinese generals joined. Thus the kidnappee & kidnapper sought to exercise in Chiang's village birthplace a joint moral and political leadership of China, seemingly with the intention that Chinese capitalists in the coastal cities and the more or less bureaucratic statesmen of the Government at Nanking should awaken to the "advantages" of teaming up with the potent Chinese bandit Communist armies for war with Japan...