Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to TIME, Nov. 16, "editors and statesmen of every capital in the world . . . responded to news of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide re-election with an international ovation for the winner...
...statesmen to talk about peace is good, but last week many people in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Rumania were inclined to think, mistakenly perhaps, that their statesmen were doing something better...
Neither new King George VI nor any member of the Royal Family sat with Prince Edward during the abdication broadcast from Windsor Castle (see p. 15). His Majesty had become King and Emperor eight hours previously, and immediately dropped into a quiet routine of receiving British home & Dominion statesmen at his home, No. 145 Piccadilly. As Duke of York he aroused only the slightest public interest, but British aristocrats said with particular satisfaction of the Duchess of York, "She is one of us," and a popular knowledge that the late King George V was most fond of their little daughter...
...invented committees to steer them. It was thus the fate of the Hull Pillars this week to be steered back to the steering committee. The Secretary of State, who is never downhearted or discouraged, commenced a lobbying campaign to nurse his brain children into health & strength while other statesmen give birth to theirs. Not wicked but as good as most mothers, the Conference statesmen pursued their Destiny...
Lucky winner gets $40,000 from the Nobel Peace Prize. The President of the Conference, Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas, got his just before the statesmen reached Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 7). This week Adolf Hitler held still locked up in a Berlin sanatorium Nobel Peace Prizeman Carl von Ossietzky. Although the Prize Prisoner protested that his health is quite good enough for him to go to Norway and receive the $40,000 which the Nobel Committee wants to give him as a slap at Dictatorship (TIME, Dec. 7), Nazi newsorgans stated firmly that Nazi doctors do not think...