Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supreme court of the British Commonwealth of Nations is in London and is called the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The entire Privy Council consists of some 300 British statesmen in all by parts their of the sovereign globe who with the have rank been of "P. C." honored (Privy Councilor). Thus there is a broad Commonwealth flavor about the Judicial Committee. It smacks faintly of Union Jacks on which the sun never sets, and yet is definitely Mother Country. Last week in an historic session the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council held to be null and void...
...short, Canadian statesmen have never yet grappled hard with New Deal actualities, as did President Roosevelt, his Johnsons, Wallaces, Tugwells and Ickeses-partly because it was an Old Dealer who dealt their New Deal, partly because they have been waiting for the Privy Council to tell them where they stood...
...murdered by Joseph Stalin's accomplished Secret Service or Ogpu.* Husband Dmitri Navachine was perhaps the ablest Soviet banker, economist and financier Communism has produced. As Director of the Soviet State Bank's Paris branch for some years, Red Navachine won the confidence of such leading French statesmen as the present Premier Léon Blum and his predecessors, Premiers Herriot & Laval. The Bolshevik banker convinced these statesmen that France could trust Dictator Joseph Stalin and the result was the present Franco-Soviet Pact, negotiated by Herriot, signed by Laval, upheld by Blum (TIME...
Among Exposer Navachine's audience would have been perhaps Statesmen Herriot, Laval and Blum themselves, certainly many of their friends. Soviet Russia has, in all western Europe, only one treaty-ally, the French Republic. Therefore, since Comrade Navachine, who had sold France on Stalin in the first place, was now going to try to unsell France on Stalin, the situation in which Paris agents of the Ogpu found themselves was "vital to the Soviet Fatherland...
...sentencing not to Death but to ten years' imprisonment Karl Radek and the onetime Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Comrade Grigoriy Sokolnikov, Stalin's Supreme Court spared two Big Reds with friends among journalists and statesmen of the World - although many attributed the sudden mercy twist of Moscow Justice to discreet, telegraphic intervention by the Premier of France...