Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon the proposed British declaration as a typical instance of Anglo-Saxon diplomatic piety. French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet did, however, use the State visit last week of President and Mme Albert Lebrun ("Mr. and Mrs. Brown" to Londoners) as a fit occasion to talk matters over with British statesmen. M. le President and His Majesty King George VI also toasted each other's peoples heartily at a banquet at Buckingham Palace...
...Somehow he got out of the monastery and into an airplane-which flew straight to Berlin. Adolf Hitler immediately received him for a 40-minute conference. As the ousted Dr. Tiso drove away, Führer Hitler's Elite Bodyguard rolled out a drum salute reserved for foreign statesmen who are still in office. Dr. Tiso hurried to a telephone and called Premier Sidor in Bratislava: summon the Slovak Parliament, he commanded, for he was coming to read it a declaration...
...reprieved) for plotting Flemish autonomy with Germany, was appointed a charter member of the newly created Flemish Academy of Science. The Walloons were furious and the Cabinet of Premier Paul Henri Spaak fell on that issue. It was suspected that King Leopold had backed the appointment. After that Belgian statesmen struggled to form Cabinets, failed in dizzy succession. Soon the suspicion was rife that the King had dictatorial ambitions. Last week a shortlived Cabinet-that of Walloon Premier Hubert Pierlot-was again about to resign when His Majesty stepped in. He refused to accept the resignations, ordered new elections...
...Jews, which she wants no more than Germany wants hers. That shrewd Colonel Beck was not putting all his diplomatic eggs in the Italian basket, however, was evident from his announcement that he would go this month to London, where he will meet, besides British statesmen, French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet. At the same time there was talk of a $50,000,000 British commercial loan to Poland. A diplomat of less cunning-like, for instance, Eduard Benes, who put all Czechoslovakia's eggs in the democracies' basket and got them smashed-would long ago have steered...
...They suspected that Colonel Beck, now entertaining the Foreign Minister of one of the axis powers, looked not unfavorably upon riots against the other power in the hope that they might persuade Britain and France that Poland is still worth lending money to. While few of Europe's statesmen like Colonel Beck and absolutely none trust him, no seasoned diplomat of Europe's hard-boiled chancelleries can fail to admire him. In his own way, he does his job superbly well...