Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since British statesmen are well known to doubt almost everything they read in the papers,* Captain Eden's curiosity would have been natural, had he not recently popped the question to Il Duce in Rome and been officially answered (TIME, July 1 & 8). Previously in Rome, Premier Laval had gone even farther, making with Premier Mussolini a pact in which France gave Italy a "free hand" against Ethiopia (TIME, Jan. 14 & 21) in return for Italian support at the subsequent Stresa Conference on German rearmament. Thus last week Mr. Eden and Premier Laval knew they were asking Baron Aloisi...
Decision to Struggle. Meanwhile Dictator Mussolini continued in cold blood to make efficient preparations last week for his Ethiopia-snatching war, thus giving other statesmen every opportunity to prove their humanitarianism by trying to stop him. II Duce went to the length of publicly demonstrating a compound produced by Italian chemists to be strewn by Italian airplanes on the soil of Ethiopia to sear and burn the proverbially bare feet of Emperor Power of Trinity's savage troops. At the demonstration a photographer trod on the stuff, was picked up by Italian soldiers and rushed to a watering trough...
...Corp. to do full justice to the great issue What Is An Englishman? Employed to answer was brilliant Harold Nicolson, son of Edward VII's late great Ambassador to St. Petersburg, Sir Arthur Nicolson, 1st Baron Carnock. Son Nicolson today is perhaps the Empire's most entertaining biographer of statesmen recently deceased, from his own father to Lord Curzon. Broadcast...
...years higher education in Oregon has resembled a dogfight. In 1929 Oregon statesmen decided to end the long, bitter rivalry between University of Oregon at Eugene and Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis by lumping them with the State's three normal schools in one big happy family. Their curious method of furthering this pacification was to appoint William Jasper Kerr, longtime President of Oregon State, to be Chancellor of the new setup...
...champagne business, General von Ribbentrop has plenty of friends in London, even a good many in Paris, and speaks nearly flawless English and French. He has been making the rounds of Europe's capitals in a convivial sort of way year after year, snubbed by some statesmen but warmly received by others, and exuding an air of intimacy with Adolf Hitler who was known to have given him no diplomatic status but the interesting title "Special Commissioner for Disarmament Questions...