Word: strangeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every Russian's way of saying he means to put something off till tomorrow, the next day, for ten years. Seichas seemed to have taken over the leaden-footed Anglo-Soviet pact negotiations last week as talks between British special negotiator William Strang, British Ambassador Sir William Seeds and Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov dragged on day after day, added up, as far as the anxiously waiting world could see, to nothing...
...Expert Strang took no new formula to the Kremlin, was merely trying to wheedle unbudgeable Russians into entering a pact without specific British anti-aggression guarantees to reluctant Latvia, Estonia, Finland, observers thought Seichas likely to last for a long time. The more so as hard-headed Kremlin negotiators with one ear glued to the good earth hoped to make capital out of British embroilments with Japanese in China...
Though appeasement peeps from Prime Minister Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax were credited to papal efforts, Britain went forward last week with its plans to send Chief of the Central European Bureau of the Foreign Office William Strang to carry its latest message to Moscow in the tiresome seesawing of Anglo-Soviet bargaining. Though Russian vanity was nicked because Prime Minister Chamberlain did not visit the Kremlin in person, observers of practical Diplomat Strang's busy career (companion of Captain Anthony Eden on his 1935 swing through Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Prague; translator for Hitler and Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden...
...above lyrics from the newly-released Billie Holiday (Commodore Music Shop) of "Strang Fruit" are part of one of the most amazing mood records ever cut. Miss Holiday's singing, done in a bitterly poignant manner, makes even sharper the commentary on American democracy that this song conveys. Why does a colored band get one third as much money as a while band of equal ability. Why does a man have to go to the Supreme Court to he allowed to pay for his training as a lawyer? Why do political partics allow vestiges of Jim Crowism to hang...
...Commander and a Companion, respectively, of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador at Berlin, was made a Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, adviser to Viscount Runciman, the British "observer" in Czechoslovakia last summer, and William Strang, the Foreign Office Counselor who accompanied Mr. Chamberlain to Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich, became Companions of the Order of the Bath...