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Word: belgium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heard from U. S. Ambassador to Belgium Joseph E. Davies that a third term is necessary to save the U. S. from war involvement; pondered how to keep the politically influential Mr. Davies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Green Christmas | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Third Termites were added two Oklahomans-Senator Josh Lee and former Governor Martin Edwin Trapp; also Ambassador to Belgium Joseph E. Davies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: 1940 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...resolution to remain seated. No delegate was brave enough to rise and declare he was for the Soviet Union. In the Council, the League executive organ, where one negative vote means defeat of a measure, those voting for Russia's ouster were France, Great Britain, Bolivia, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, the Union of South Africa and Egypt. Significantly, those abstaining were Greece and Yugoslavia, who felt they were a bit too near the Soviet Union for comfort; Finland, which decided not to be both plaintiff and judge, and China, which depends on Soviet Russian supplies for its war against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Minus a Member | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Great Britain, after Munich, did not halt her rearmament program. This section was published last month (TIME, Dec. n). Section three, "Germany's Efforts to Secure Peaceful Relations With Its Neighbors," traces the activities of the Führer "to achieve good relations" with Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Lithuania. The Führer is quoted (cracking back when British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson complained of German noncooperation with Britain) : "It takes two to make a love match." In the fourth and final section, "Poland as the Tool of England's War Will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Scholarly Work | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Because a Brussels, Belgium, golfer named King Leopold III once gave U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies a lesson in chip-shots, and a trimming (Davies, 85, Leopold, 69), last week grateful Mr. Davies made the King an honorary member of Washington's swank Burning Tree Golf Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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