Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little Entente. One bulwark erected by Dr. Benes when he was "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman" had not collapsed last week, the Little Entente of Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia...
Foremost European exponent of the need for economic cooperation between nations in order to avoid another World War is young, vigorous Leopold III, Statesman-King of the Belgians. Possessed of the conviction that he (since fate has made him a King) and Belgium (since she stands strategically between the European lineups) have the responsibility of bringing about a permanent peace based on economic readjustments before it is too late, Leopold loses no opportunity to put his ideas across...
...letter consisted of an appeal to contribute money as a tribute to Dr. Walter B. Cannon to be given to Dr. Juan Negrin, Premier of the so-called Spanish, republic. It says, 'we hope that you will want to share in this tribute to an eminent doctor and statesman, in honor of a beloved American colleague and champion of democracy'. I wish to protest against this, and to say that every well-informed person knows that this so-called Spanish Republic is not a democracy, but a communist state aided both materially and spiritually by the present regime in Russia...
...Prague, undaunted President Eduard Benes, still "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," calmly considered high-powered demands he had received from Warsaw and from Budapest, each saying in effect "You must let us take what was ours in Czechoslovakia-or else...
Died. Marshal Alexander Averescu, 77, soldier-statesman, Rumania's World War generalissimo, three times (1918, 1920, 1926) its Prime Minister; in Bucharest...