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Richelieu was one of the most cunning, adroit, far-seeing and resourceful minds in political history. First test of any great politician is to hoist himself into position where he can control the steering wheel of state at the decisive moments. Half of Richelieu's political lifetime was spent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Conquering Cardinal | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Author Wolfe believes that Stalin signed the Moscow Pact with Oriental cunning. Others who read this book after the Nazi knockout of France may believe instead that the Red Army has become the Reichswehr's vast awkward squad, Russia itself a Nazi economic dependency. But last week, as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marche Slav | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Tall, trig, suave, 66, Charles McNary has been in politics 34 years, spent 23 of them in the U. S. Senate. No one in the G. O. P. is better qualified to help Novice Willkie through the guiles and intricacies he would face in Washington. Easygoing Senator McNary, leader of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Good Soldier | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

All Quiet. Relative silence now fell over lower Norway, with only a few guerrilla bands of stubborn natives fighting on in mountain pockets. Even the 160 men and 15 officers in thick-walled Hegra Fortress outside Trondheim, though unbeaten, finally surrendered. In 23 days a husky nation of 3,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: 23 Days | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

The deceptively mellow Mr. Grundy-who falls into Quaker "thee"-saying if he is enraged-was the uncrowned King of Lobbyists in the U. S. from McKinley days until the New Deal years. His sincere passion is for government by a Republican who will interfere in business just enough, never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Pew at Valley Forge | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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