Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Britain the entire Press, except one or two die-hard mouthpieces of the Army & Navy, hailed the President's proposal with acclaim. It was promptly endorsed by the Labor Party (Opposition). The Government remained noncommittal, however, even after Sir John Simon had returned from Switzerland and conferred at length with Acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Leader of the Conservative Party which has a huge majority in Parliament...
...father for long, slow motor drives through the beauteous Swiss countryside. In London it was a matter of common remark that President Hoover had stolen the Prime Minister's thunder (see col. 3). It was even said that unless Scot MacDonald achieves a spectacular success of some sort in Switzerland his loss of prestige will make it impossible for him to continue as the head of Great Britain's National Government...
Since the deliberations & conversations at Lausanne & Geneva were expected to go on indefinitely, smart young Robert Thompson Bell, press officer for the U. S. statesmen now in Switzerland, last week took a villa for the summer strategically located on the lake shore at Celigny, between Geneva and Lausanne...
...three-hour conference and a formal luncheon, the two statesmen motored out to Versailles, wandered together around Queen Marie Antoinette's "Play Village," had tea with Socialite Sir Charles Mendl, motored back to Paris in high good humor, dined at the British Embassy and left next morning for Switzerland on the same train...
...Great Determination." With this good-as-gold advice to hearten them, Europe's leading statesmen set off again for Switzerland last week, planned to resurrect the moribund Geneva Disarmament Conference and to convene June 16 the Lausanne Conference which must take quick action on Reparations & War Debts because the Hoover Moratorium expires June...