Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These fair words did not alter in the least the fact that Italy and France were furiously at odds, last week, because each wants a bigger navy than the other; that Japan was sulky because the U. S. and Britain have thus far refused her the 10-10-7 ratio she demands instead of 5-5-3; and that the U. S. and Britain faced each other as friends but by no means in complete agreement on any of the conference issues...
Delegate Rogers. The Fox studios in Hollywood were scheduled to start last week filming a $500,000 production starring Funnyman Will Rogers, when suddenly he disappeared. Frantic Fox telegrams caught the renegade in Manhattan, did not stop him from sailing for the conference on the S. S. Bremen, world's fastest liner. "Tomorrow I lunch at the Embassy with Mr. Dawes," radioed Clown Rogers on reaching London. Another Rogersgram: "The American delegation arrived this afternoon and went into conference at the American bar and sunk a fleet of schooners without warning...
Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, is the calm, persuasive statesman with weak eyes who served for eleven consecutive years as Foreign Secretary, made the entente with France and Russia, reluctantly but vigorously led Great Britain into the World War. Last week, though his years are now three-score and seven, and though his eyes are very dim indeed, Lord Grey made a brief, dignified public statement which had the effect of a dynamite depth bomb on his party-Liberal...
...chiefly composed of moral fibres. It seemed as if the old feud between the factions had been extinguished, as though Lloyd George's titular leadership of the party had been finally accepted by the old Asquith faction misnamed the "Liberal Council" and headed by Lord Grey. Then, last week, with spectacular abruptness. Grey of Fallodon calmly declared: "Things were said during the last election to the effect that our want of confidence in Mr. Lloyd George's leadership no longer existed. That was not and is not true. Our feeling remains just as it was regarding Mr. Lloyd...
While last week's explosives were detonating below him, David Lloyd George was happily celebrating his 67th birthday. But most politically wise Britons surmised that the cocky little Welshman would think up plenty of drastic things to say about Viscount Grey's disturbance. Few if any could have foreseen the nature of his remarks. Summoning a meeting of the National Liberal Club, he extended toward his assailant a rhetorical glad hand which smacked much more of a rebuke than any amount of invective. Said he: "I appeal to Lord Grey not to discourage the party when...