Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that way. Most British politicos therefore mistrust him. But he has had an unsettling record of being right a long time before most people realized it. Ever since Adolf Hitler became Führer in 1933 Mr. Churchill has been preaching rearmament. He was one of the first Conservative statesmen to warn that the Empire's great enemy was to be found not in Moscow but in Berlin. He long plugged for a British-French combination to stop the Nazis and last year urged that Britain seek an alliance with Soviet Russia. Most of the dangers he has warned...
...coterie obviously did not believe a word of it, and there were even non-Nazis who shared the Führer's skepticism. It was all very well to talk of determination to obstruct "aggression," "attack." "force," "domination" and such like, but why should British (and French) statesmen be so skittish in mentioning the simple word Danzig? Not one did. Even so, the parade of British orators giving Germany advice last week was impressive...
...British will fight before they will let the Nazis take Danzig, nothing seems more certain than that the French will too. Last week the French Government was not yet sure of its ally, however, and French statesmen, like the British, were not so specific over Danzig as the Paris (or London) press thought they should be. Nevertheless, the Government was ready to put the nation overnight on a war footing...
...more and more reservists were called up, statesmen, politicians, journalists and generals hauled out their big oratorical guns for what promised to be a screaming international debate. At Verdun, where 23 years ago this week the French defenders were repulsing the attacking Germans, the usually silent General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, commander-in-chief of all French armed forces, said that "respect cannot be bought with concessions." French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet spoke to fellow Radical Socialists of the "spectre of war" haunting Europe, came right out and pleaded with the U. S. to remove war fears by joining the British...
...paper in 1902, when he was eleven years old. It represented the local authorities as lunatics because of their reluctance to remove certain trees that obstructed traffic. Ever since that time he has pictured himself as a "nuisance dedicated to sanity." His definition of sanity embraces a good many statesmen and policies: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, armament races, Nonintervention, and Prime Minister Neville (Chamberlain's political "realism." Some of the personages scared by his corrosive brush have had good reason to regret that young David did not become a bishop as his mother wished, instead of becoming the world...