Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul Claudel, the great mystical poet and practical statesman whom France has sent as her Ambassador to the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 22, 1926), bade godspeed, last week at Manhattan, to a great urbane, humanitarian Middle Westerner (Cleveland) who returned, after a five months illness to his post as U. S. Ambassador to France...
...Statesman Claudel thus made clear that Ambassador Herrick would have to explain to France why U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg has rejected the Franco-U. S. peace pact which Mr. Herrick himself brought back from France before he collapsed in health (TIME, July 4). In a stirring plea for this pact Poet-Statesman Claudel cried: "Casual thinking people, speaking of the proposal, have said: 'It is nothing but words. . . . Can you stop war with paper?' . . . Well, words are great things. It is written: 'In the beginning was the Word. . . . I remember, too, some general...
Trip. Thirty years ago, the Western Hemisphere became the U. S. That it might not remain so, even with Spain gone and Britain acquiescent, was perceived by the U. S. statesman who secured the Panama Canal. That the Panama Canal was a business as well as a Naval channel was perceived by the man who founded Florida's perpetual youth?Henry M. Flagler. On his way to Havana, President Coolidge would not fail to be impressed by the Flagler monuments...
Between the pudgy, rheumatic yet capable fingers of a great statesman a pen quivered. Aristide Briand was signing, last week, a cablegram to Frank Billings Kellogg. This was the third vital stroke in a game of diplomatic shuttlecock played since last spring between the Foreign Minister of France and the U. S. Secretary of State...
...before, so it was last week, only perhaps more so. Again, the most memorable remarks of the week came neither from apostle nor statesman but from a Detroit manufacturer. Henry Ford first remarked that he did not know how rich he was, that he did not care a damn. "I don't give a damn," he shouted to the eager U. S. as represented by honest newsmen. "No, not a damn." Then he remarked, casually, pontifically, that Hoover was the man (see p. 7). Then he remarked that he and son Edsel expected to fly to South America this...