Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Best Five. The most important aspect of the 15,000-word report made by van Zeeland last week, was not its inclusion of much good advice that economists have given for years and statesmen have failed to take...
...Statesmen know that when Paul van Zeeland was Premier of Belgium he proved, as Newspundit Walter Lippmann wrote last week, "to be perhaps the most efficient, the least confused and the most sure-footed of the statesmen who dealt with the Depression." Last spring Belgium's young and vigorous King Leopold III used his great popularity in England and France, his many contacts with London and Paris leaders-both Government and Opposition-to get Paul van Zeeland officially commissioned by the United Kingdom and the French Republic to make "an inquiry into the possibility of obtaining a general reduction...
Jagged cakes of ice jostled each other in the Danube last week as lights flashed in the Royal Palace overlooking Budapest where statesmen sat down to nibble caviar and quaff champagne. The party was a meeting of the Rome Protocol States, organized over three years ago when Benito Mussolini succeeded in more definitely attaching Austria and Hungary to Italy as satellites. What was afoot was a whole series of moves by Fascists and Fascist sympathizers: 1) against Leftist Spain; 2) against the League of Nations; 3) against Communism; and 4) against France...
...Geneva the 100th session of the Council of the League of Nations which had been about to open was suddenly postponed. In London Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hastily conferred with Anthony Eden, called home from Monte Carlo to duty : . the Foreign Office. For European statesmen felt that it was not just another French Cabinet which fell last week, that a crisis was at hand not only for France but for Europe...
...party in Egypt is the Wafd, and its leader Premier El Nahas Pasha has often dramatically declaimed: "Egypt is the guardian of Oriental Democracy!" Last week Nahas Pasha emerged from the Royal Palace wailing: "I have been cast aside as Premier like an old shoe by the King! Those statesmen who have served Egypt best have all been discharged like servants. I will continue to struggle for this unhappy land of Egypt until the will of Allah be done...