Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What would the League's founders have thought of the present situation, seemingly such a contradiction in terms? With an car to the ground, does one hear rumblings caused by Wilson's revolving in his grave? Or are those ethereal whispers the gasps of the Paris statesmen, wondrous that the League is doing what it is, amazed that for the first time in history an overwhelming majority of nations has been able to agree on the aggressor, and not only condemn but attempt to restrain its actions...
Only British statesmen who do not electioneer are the members of the House of Lords. Debate in their chamber was featured by unusual and concentrated cynicism, almost as if the dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts and barons felt it incumbent last week to say what would not be said by vote-coaxing Cabinet bigwigs...
Since it is Bolshevik dogma that only the decadent bourgeois are curious about statesmen's private lives, since Soviet leaders usually see in print only their last names with no personal details whatsoever, astonishment was the reaction of most Russians last week to the Pravda & Izvestia story headed...
...actually adopted the no-credit-to-Italy sanction, but this exciting news proved false. At week's end only Communist Russia had officially shut off extension of credits to Fascist Italy. Bursting with suspicion, Russia's Foreign Commissar Litvinoff glared at Geneva's assembled Capitalist statesmen, told them tartly that the Soviet Union will keep vigilant watch and at the first sign that they are chiseling on sanctions will herself resume trade with Italy...
...Eden that he began to get daily threats in impassioned Latin scrawls. (Sample: "Pig! Somebody ought to stick you!") Ultimately Scotland Yard operatives and Swiss detectives flung a veritable phalanx around the British Minister. He got safely away to London when Geneva finally shut up shop last week, League statesmen dispersing to the capitals in which their proposed sanctions are being considered...