Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...living and one dead-Austen Chamberlain, His Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who negotiated the Locarno Treaties (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq., INTERNATIONAL), and Joseph Chamberlain, beloved and fearless Victorian champion of Empire, whose darling wish it was that his son Austen should grow up into a statesman whose diplomacy should transcend even the limits of the Empire...
...your hospitality I have drunk tonight of your loving cup with the German Ambassador. What we have done this evening may the nations do tomorrow. We will work in the spirit of Locarno. . . . I am confident that the Locarno accords will be ratified by every country there represented. No statesman dare take the responsibility before history of dashing from our lips the cup of hope that Locarno has presented!" Continuing amid applause, he concluded, "I . . . hope that the same spirit of mutual understanding and mutual goodwill which prevailed . . . at Locarno may prevail among the powers now meeting at Peking...
...farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all," said Emerson. "Man is priest and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier..... The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, a good finger, a neck, a stomach an elbow (he might have added a head), but never a man. Man is this metamorphosed into a thing, into many things . . . . In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state, he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when...
...Jouvenal, who is Editor-in-Chief of Le Matin, accepted the decidedly thankless post with some hesitation and only after it had been found almost impossible to discover an able civilian statesman who was willing to risk his reputation in Syria. Because he is a civilian, he will be "High Commissioner" rather than "High Com-mander...
Last week that hardy statesman, that skilful graphic artist in words, the abdicated Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria, sought and gained pardon from the Vicar of Christ for an offense which has estranged the Vatican from Sofia these many years. Humbly presenting himself "as a pilgrim," Ferdinand bent his powerful big-boned frame and kissed the regally extended Papal toe. Pardoned, he wove what spells he might in the Papal ear during the half hour of audience allotted him. Then, with his handsome features wreathed in the smile of one handsomely forgiven, he quitted the Vatican, was smartly saluted...