Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crisp, determined, confident fashion, Premier Edouard Daladier took his new Cabinet of moderate Left statesmen before Parliament last week, asked a free hand to rule by decree until July 31. This was asking much more than ousted Socialist Premier Léon Blum was refused fortnight ago when his Popular Front Cabinet cracked up. The new Premier was banking last week on a growing realization that the majority of public opinion in France has shifted from the Left part way to the Centre. The disgruntled Left, conscious of their weakened position but eager that it should receive no advertisement last...
...most uncompromisingly anti-Communist members of the new French Cabinet, Paul Reynaud and Georges Mandel, were for immediate resumption of those cordial French relations with Joseph Stalin personally which were never so close as when the Premier of France was Conservative Pierre Laval, one of the few foreign statesmen ever entertained by the Kremlin Dictator. With a view to aiding France to gain strength as fast as possible in rivalry with Italy and Germany, the assistance of the World's No. 1 Communist is again wanted by Paris...
...Vatican City the Papal Secretary of State, His Eminence Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, meanwhile held repeated earnest councils with Papal statesmen. The semi-official newsorgan Osservatore Romano announced indirectly that the Holy See had not known of what Cardinal Innitzer was about to do. Later in Vienna the Cardinal explicitly denied reports of his having acted on instructions from the Supreme Pontiff...
...Hoover warmed to his task and, month ago, pushed on up into Austria to confer with chunky President Wilhelm Miklas. To cheering Viennese engineering students he proclaimed "Statesmen seek peace through laws and conferences, sometimes forgetting that engineers can give them the things that make peace." Nine days later, with Guest Hoover then in Poland, Austrian Host Miklas lost his job and German troops took possession of Austria...
...Philip Deu: Administrator, published in 1912 about the time he made Wilson's acquaintance. It proposed many governmental reforms, which helped cement their friendship. Not reform but international diplomacy was their most binding tie. From 1914 on House commuted to Europe as Wilson's private emissary to statesmen and kings, trying first to prevent the World War, then to bring peace. In 1916 he was consulting strategist of the he-kept-us-out-of-war campaign in which Wilson was reelected, again a diplomat during the War and early League of Nations days, was estranged from Wilson...