Word: statesmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Firstconferences in Paris with Premier Edouard Herriot again visibly discouraged Scot MacDonald, but gradually the two statesmen felt their way back to that amicable ground on which they stood in 1924. Shoulder to shoulder then, they made possible the Dawes Plan which, though it failed, was better than no plan and marked a first step toward solving the same old problems that faced M. Herriot and Mr. MacDonald last week. After a three-hour conference and a formal luncheon, the two statesmen motored out to Versailles, wandered together around Queen Marie Antoinette's "Play Village," had tea with Socialite...
...Great Determination." With this good-as-gold advice to hearten them, Europe's leading statesmen set off again for Switzerland last week, planned to resurrect the moribund Geneva Disarmament Conference and to convene June 16 the Lausanne Conference which must take quick action on Reparations & War Debts because the Hoover Moratorium expires June...
...more potent than most statesmen is alert, tactiturn M. le Professeur Charles Rist, fiscal expert of the Bank of France. When he and his corps of secretaries descend in these days upon a minor European capital local Treasury officials are in a panic, hope for a loan, fear disclosures. In Bucharest last week M. le Professeur Charles Rist made an announcement which rocked the Kingdom of Rumania...
...Turkish statesmen, whose time-honored profession is playing the rest of Europe off against Russia, scored again last week at Rome...
...private office. On the desk was a concealed button which could be pressed by "accidentally" moving a book with his elbow. It caused a dummy telephone to ring. Herr Kreuger could then ask his visitor to leave or could impress him with imaginary conversations with great bankers and statesmen...