Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the League Assembly of 57 states, summoned by its Belgian President Paul Hymans, was to act on the Report in extraordinary session, putting forth what Geneva statesmen called the most powerful and concerted effort to obtain peace ever made...
...their official communique Statesmen Benes, Yevtitch & Titulescu used if possible even stronger language. "In order to mark sharply the transformation of the [Little] Entente into an international community having a distinct personality." they declared, "the three Foreign Ministers have decided that every political treaty of each State of the Entente, every unilateral act changing the existing political situation of one of the Entente States toward an outside State, as well as every economic agreement involving important political consequences require henceforth the unanimous consent of the Council of the Entente...
...Oxford Union last week was more than a campus scandal. To the whole rugged, wealthy British upper middle class (not to mention the peerage & landed gentry) it was a national calamity. They had known that the Oxford Union, that famed debating society which is the traditional school for British statesmen, has been increasingly attended by studious greasy grinds, apt to be Laborites. But what indeed was the Empire coming to when the Union sank so low last week as to adopt by a vote of 275-to-153 this proposition...
...hearten War Lord Tang last week, young Marshal Chang and famed Chinese Finance Minister T. V. Soong who is now "Acting Premier" made the unprecedented move (for Chinese statesmen) of venturing into the threatened province, Jehol. Bumping out from Peiping, risking a Japanese bombing raid on their way, they entered Chengteh through a triumphal arch provided by War Lord Tang...
...lieutenants, was promised the Foreign Ministry months ago when Handsome Adolf dreamed of an all-Nazi Cabinet. If he could not be Foreign Minister last week Herr Göring determined to act like one. When the Swedish Gothenburg Handelsoch Sjöfartstidning declared: "It is incomprehensible that the statesmen and Press of the world should be compelled to occupy themselves with this figure. Hitler is an insult." Fiery Hermann Göring promptly telegraphed the editor: "As a true friend of the Swedish people I see in such dirty expressions a serious danger to the friendly relations between...