Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be to give a Cabinet job to the Rt. Hon. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, M.P. for Epping. For the past decade Mr. Churchill has been to the British man-in-the-street the personification of Empire do-or-die, and more recently as the British statesman most violently opposed to appeasing "the Huns." Accordingly he is one of the Führer's pet aversions. Several times Herr Hitler has gone out of his way to attack the onetime First Lord of the Admiralty. He has charged that he was a leader of the "British war party." Once...
...Hitler that this time Britain means business, that when it signed a treaty last April to assist Poland in case of aggression it meant it. Even British cartoonists, like Middleton of the Birmingham Gazette, complained that the Nazis would pay no attention even to the direst warning a British statesman could give. Führer Hitler and his coterie obviously did not believe a word of it, and there were even non-Nazis who shared the Führer's skepticism. It was all very well to talk of determination to obstruct "aggression," "attack." "force," "domination" and such like...
...privilege is more zealously guarded by Latin American nations than the right of asylum in a foreign embassy or legation. In the topsy-turvy politics of South America no statesman can tell from one day to the next when the wheel of political fortune is going to turn violently against him. It is only practical that he should foster the tradition which provides him a soft spot on which to light in the event of an explosion...
Traveling mysteriously about Japanese-conquered China last week was a suave, subtle Oriental named Wang Ching-wei. Seven months ago this Chinese statesman was one of the powers at Chungking, China's temporary capital; last week he was reported about to become Japan's No. 1 puppet at Peking, seat of the North China Government. From Chungking to Peking these days is a longer distance ideologically than geographically, and the fact that Mr. Wang, elder revolutionary, onetime collaborator with Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, one of the old "Big Three" in Chinese affairs,* has made the ideological as well as geographical trip...
Between 1921 and 1928 Auto-Ordnance, doing a small, tidy business, sold more than 6,000 Thompsons for a gross of $1,330,000. In 1928, however, death came to Thomas Fortune Ryan. Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. became executor, Elder Statesman Elihu Root the lawyer, of the $135,000,000 Ryan estate. In kindly Pacifist Root's scheme of things, the sale of man-killers had no place. Quietly he put Auto-Ordnance on the shelf. The Thompsons, father and son, had done a good selling job, were on the way to making it better, but under...