Word: wendell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from peace and the sanctity of treaties than France. So it is not surprising to find that many Frenchmen are now saying that France made a tragic mistake in supporting Japan (in a backhand manner) in the Manchurian affair. And they note, with bitterness, that it was the Do Wendel press that wanted to let Japan have her imperial...
...unquestionably the greatest Peace Man of the post-war decade. Today, many a Frenchman is resentful of the fact that Briand's policies did not succeed in conciliating Germany, and while blaming Germany most, he wonders whether the failure was not helped along by the patriotic M. de Wendel...
...support of a motion for a new trial for Thomas Patrick Morris, convicted of conspiracy against the $30,000,000 Wendel estate (TIME, Nov. 28, 1932), three affidavits and a genealogical table were filed in a Manhattan court. The genealogical table showed that an itinerant Pennsylvanian herb doctor named Lewis James Little was a second cousin of the late John G. Wendel. The three affidavits were sworn to by his two daughters and a son-in-law. They all told the same story: Long ago John G. Wendel had summoned Lewis James Little to his Fifth Avenue home to deliver...
...since 1929. As a result of the operations of these highly international concerns the world's yearly armament bill stands now in the vicinity of a billion and a half dollars. During the last few years the Far East in particular has contributed much to satisfy the MM. de Wendel and Schneider--to say nothing of Vickers-Armstrong's Sir Herbert Lawrence. Japan has been a highly profitable customer; the firm of Mitsul, allied to both Schneider-Creusot and Vickers-Armstrongs, served its country splendidly when Manchuria was flaming brightest. It also served China excellently. In 1930 China, the world...
...leading armament makers not only in Germany, but in France, united in their support behind the one man most capable of stirring up a new outbreak of international anarchy in Europe. And by a curious coincidence (here is where the sword presents its other gleaming edge) the De Wendel-controlled newspapers in Paris immediately broke out in a fever of denunciation against the Hitler regime and called for fresh guaranties of security against the menace of rearming Germany. Awake, La Patrie...