Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First witness was Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax, who spoke in the House of Lords. Ostensibly the Foreign Secretary simply reassured Germany that the idea of "encirclement" was furthest from British thoughts. But when he talked about "problems which may now or hereafter appear likely to disturb international order," looked forward...
President of the Board of Trade Oliver Stanley and Sir John Simon, an appeaser from way back, swelled the chorus, but the strangest note was struck by Sir Francis Lindley, onetime Ambassador to Japan, longtime foe of Soviet Russia, stanch friend of and host to Mr. Chamberlain. Sir Francis told...
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...
When Germany swallowed Austria last year, the Bank of England played ball with the Nazis, obligingly turned over to them the gold it held in the name of the Austrian banks. Later, British owners of Austrian bonds had trouble getting their money. When last March the Germans goose-stepped into...
Nearby Nazis peeked, failed to see the joke, began to slug, and Humorist Curts landed in the Heidelberg cooler. Shrewdly he wrote to his guardian in California: "The beating I received did me a lot of good. . . . Only through this beating did I really get an opportunity to know the...