Word: utters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...step backward. . . . The preamble asserts that the time is ripe for disarmament but all the subsequent contents of the resolution represent an utter negation of that assertion." Suiting action to his words the Soviet Delegate moved to amend the resolution by inserting into it the chief, concrete features of the Hoover Plan. Three votes were taken and on all three the U. S. Ambassador voted against insertion of the Hoover Plan. At this juncture a huge "silver" (aluminum) seaplane, roaring up from Rome, appeared over Geneva. The Delegates, as they voted down the Russian proposals, could...
...Utter Failure!" Stepping out of the seaplane Italy's round-eyed, bearded young Air Minister, General Italo Balbo, made straight for the Conference. A soldier, a fighter, he came to speak for Benito Mussolini who had just ousted his suave, diplomatic Foreign Minister Dino Grandi and occupied the Italian Foreign Office himself. Striding into the Conference bearded General Balbo lisped...
...This Conference is an utter failure! . . . The resolution now before us is a vain effort, entirely inadequate when compared to the wishes and hopes of the World. . . . No marked progress is made toward Disarmament. . . . The Fascist Government can take no part in the vote on the resolution to adjourn...
...pound sterling, off the gold standard, has lost more than 25% of its value on international exchange, but all the same British gold experts managed to utter last week a most complacent statistic...
...there was no showdown last week in Geneva. The Japanese Ambassador did not utter his instructions, which were made known at Tokyo by the Foreign Office spokesman. Therefore they could be changed. President Hoover, through his Geneva representative and close friend Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson, made every effort to get his program debated by the Disarmament Conference, knowing that Italy, Spain and many a minor nation would champion it warmly...