Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prestige of the League of Nations is to be saved by restraining Benito Mussolini, obviously France and Britain must do the hog-tying. In Paris swart, astute Premier Pierre Laval picked the strongest possible delegation of pro-League French statesmen to go with him this week to Geneva. Portly, pipe-sucking Edouard Herriot and fluffy-maned, impassioned Joseph Paul-Boncour, both onetime Premiers, are the two big League guns, but they are flanked by pontifical old Henry Berenger, Chairman of the French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and kinetic Deputy Paul Bastid, the Chamber's Foreign Affairs Chairman. Though French...
...MacDonald and a bristling array of Admiralty, Air Force and Army chiefs. In papers close to the Admiralty a, great uproar was made about Britain's Mediterranean base at Malta being now so weak as to be vulnerable to Italian air attack. Amid that utter fog which British statesmen so often find useful in masking their intentions, the Government created a sensation by announcing that several units of the Mediterranean fleet which went home for King George's Jubilee Review were preparing to steam back to their stations ominously led, "a week early," by the aircraft carrier Furious...
...Soviet statesmen were pained last week by what seemed to them an unreasonably abrupt decision on President Roosevelt's part to drop the game of "Let's Pretend," begun when Washington extended diplomatic recognition to Moscow (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). The pretense, in Russian eyes, was exactly 50% of Mr. Roosevelt's making. He knew, as all the world knew, that the Soviet State has always had in Moscow the Comintern (see col. 3) which has as its avowed object the violent overthrow of the U. S. and all other non-Communist governments. Yet, knowing this...
...After these ex-statesmen are thoroughly subdued, we advocate that the government of Alabama be changed from a so-called democracy to one of communism. Blood will be shed, of course, but capitalism and the curse of private profits must be destroyed, all property seized by the people, to be owned by the people, and all profits to be shared alike by every one-white, black, old, young, competent, incompetent, Christian and heathen...
...busy, their cruiser anchoring in the safe middle of the river off Kuling, they were joined by the Chinese Ambassador to Japan. General Chiang Tso-pin, and the former Chinese satrap of what is now Manchukuo. the ''Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang. For months the Chinese statesmen who thus met last week have been playing Japan's game. Each fears sudden Death at the hands of some patriotic Chinese, and the purpose of their conference was simply to decide whether there is really any game except Japan's that they can profitably play...