Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just 24 hours later Captain Eden and Lord Halifax returned to London from Paris, hastily and much perturbed. They had not been to Geneva, and frantic longdistance telephone calls to 14 European Foreign Ministers informed those statesmen that there was not going to be any going to Geneva last week. A call to this effect caught Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff as he was about to entrain in Berlin, switched his destination from Geneva to London. Emphatically in Paris "something had happened...
...Scotland or ride to hounds with English country squires. M. Flandin knows Mr. Baldwin. He is familiar with the reluctance of the Prime Minister to use the telephone, his refusal to read newspapers on Sunday and his instinctive habit of not feeling strictly bound by promises which British statesmen may make outside the United Kingdom (TIME, Dec. 30). If the Council of the League of Nations should proceed to meet in London, virtually "in Baldwin's lap," not only the Prime Minister but also the John & Jane Bulls he so much resembles might take the Hitler Rupture into their...
...statesmen of Europe hurried toward Geneva this week French battalions poured into the $300,000,000 forts and for the first time they were fully manned. At some points French and German troops were only a pistol shot apart. The price of a Bank of France share fell from 8,700 to 8,200 francs. On orders from Australian League Council President Stanley Melbourne Bruce, the League of Nations' French Secretary General, M. Joseph A. Avenol, telephoned Berlin, inviting Realmleader Hitler to send a German representative to Geneva for the crucial session of the Council...
Neither the Army nor the Navy was eager to guard the Last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen," famed Prince Kimmochi Saionji, for many years Japan's great moderator. As the chief councilor of young Emperor Hirohito, venerable Prince Saionji has been for long years Japan's "Maker of Cabinets." Fortnight ago he barely escaped Army assassins. Only policemen last week comprised his guards...
...several terms offered France by Chancellor Adolf Hitler, the two most important are, first, the offer of a 25 year non-aggression agreement and, secondly, the German decision to re-enter the League of Nations. The attention of statesmen all over Europe is centering on these two rather long and sharp thorns in the olive branch extended by the Fuehrer, and the solon of France are carefully scrutinizing them under their high-powered microscopes to see wherein lies the rub. Clearly there is something which has aroused the suspicious of Flandin, Eden, Benes, Litvinoff and the other members...