Word: statesmens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...European democracies all this looked suspiciously like the start of another frightening, methodical squeeze by the dictators. British stocks dropped, French bonds weakened, the Amsterdam market fell badly. The British Cabinet held a three-hour session, while British statesmen rushed about assuring their people that Great Britain would never, never give way to force. As the date of Führer Adolf Hitler's annual speech to the Reichstag approached (see p. 17), wild rumors circulated that the Führer would: 1) back up Friend Benito Mussolini in a Mediterranean showdown, 2) demand a redistribution of colonies...
...Herr Hitler served notice that in the future all attacks from foreign countries would be brought to the attention of the German people and answered in the German press. He attacked as "apostles of war" Alfred Duff Cooper, Anthony Eden and Winston Churchill, British statesmen, and U. S. Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Complained the Führer...
Best interpretation of the meeting was that it was simply a trial balloon, engineered by lesser politicians at the instigation of bigger statesmen, to test how unpopular the Chamberlain appease-the-dictators policy has become. Conspicuously and significantly absent from Caxton Hall were the Conservative but anti-appeasement Big Three-Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Lord Baldwin...
Modern clubs are little more than two centuries old. They really got going in Queen Anne's London, where men- usually impelled by politics-met regularly in coffeehouses and taverns. At the Whigs' Kit-Cat Club, Addison and Congreve fellowshipped with statesmen and lords; at the Tories' Scriblerus, Swift and his friends forgathered. Before the 18th Century went out, London swarmed with clubs that, like Dr. Johnson's immortal one, produced great conversation, or like White's, Boodle's and Brooks's, witnessed some of the steepest gambling in history...
...hypocrisy and demoralized pacifism" Czechoslovakia was betrayed by European democracies so that Fascism would be strengthened for its role as hired gunman against Russia--a role which Hitler promises to play in "Mein Kampf." This brief essay condemns, in language at once controlled and vitriolic, the "pro-fascist" English statesmen for their leading role in this "foulest page of modern history...