Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such manifold and disturbing topics to discuss, one thing is certain; there will be plenty of opinions expressed. There is, however, some question as to whether those opinions will be student views, and it is the choice of speakers which causes this question. Instead of addresses by noted advocates, statesmen or diplomats, the gathering will be harangued by two Labor men, Powers Hapgood, of the New England council of the C.I.O., and Robert Morse Lovett, editor of the New Republic, national chairman of the League for Industrial Democracy, and pro-Labor sympathizer. What these men have...
...good and so unable to defend themselves that they recently decided at The Hague to revive the Oslo Convention of 1930 under which they were all to have lowered tariffs among each other. In principle the Great Powers too are strong for such good neighborliness, in practice their statesmen feel helpless to down either tariffs or rearmament, and so last week they played up the Oslo Group benignly...
...father of Boy King Peter, and that served to remind millions how firm under His Late Majesty was the friendship of Yugoslavia and France-such friendship, plus faith in the League of Nations having ever been the cornerstone of the Little Entente. It reminded scarcely anyone that the French statesmen with whom Alexander was friendly were moderate Democrats, men who would have liked to exterminate the Socialist who is Premier of France today. Another card well played last week was for Democrat Benes to tell his hosts that of course Czechoslovakia is overjoyed that Yugoslavia and Italy have buried their...
Yugoslavia is almost the last European state to have no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Yugoslav royalty and statesmen are most inclined to believe reports that Democratic President Benes is reluctantly in very deep with Communist Dictator Stalin and Socialist Premier Blum, and that Soviet war planes already using Czechoslovak landing fields by night as they speed secretly to Spain, might much more easily from these fields attack Germany. Despite such unmentionables as these at the White Castle in Belgrade last week, friendly gestures were for President Benes to decorate Dowager Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, her son King Peter...
Much that only Soviet statesmen knew while the Moscow trials of Old Bolsheviks for "Trotskyism" were being prepared (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante) came out last week as the Russian Cabinet or Council of People's Commissars issued its annual spring orders to the entire nation, a batch running to thousands of words...