Search Details

Word: chechoslovakia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Speeches at the luncheon were ostentatiously decreed "secret"' by M. Briand, perhaps to heighten press curiosity. Copious "leaks" revealed however that statesmen-guests representing Belgium, Poland, Chechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania ?the allies of France?said that they would favor establishment of a ''United States of Europe" in the form of a federation both political and economic. The Germans, Spanish, Dutch and Scandinavians wanted a purely economic "U. S. E." The British, Italians, Hungarians and Albanians were understood to have taken an attitude courteous but noncommittal. Finally "between a pear* and some cheese" M. Briand rose. Would they all authorize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Little Cornerstone | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

| 1 |