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...pilot I spent four years and 359 days in Germany reflecting on the virtues of appeasement of totalitarian governments and cannot but be dismayed at the ostrich-rump aspect presented by so many British leaders today. Your Senator Knowland seems to me to be your most intelligent and sensible statesman, and it is ironical that he is today doing his best to apprise the free world of its dangers from the world-Communism concept in precisely the same way as Churchill warned Britain [in 1938-39] of Nazi strength and aims . . . Peaceful coexistence is a dangerous delusion, comparable with "peace...
Eldest U.S. elder statesman, Bernard Baruch, 83, who was first tapped for White House advice (by President Wilson) when Dwight Eisenhower was a first lieutenant, dropped in at the presidential mansion for lunch and came out properly discreet. A reporter, trying a circuitous approach, asked Financier Baruch about the state of the economy. Replied he quickly: "I think I'll keep quiet about that." Then, seeing that such silence might be interpreted as a prophecy of doom, he hastily covered himself: "That doesn't mean I think it's bad." Striding on, Baruch had another afterthought. Pausing...
...second show the critics were more enthusiastic. Wrote New Statesman Critic John Berger: "I now think it possible that Smith is a genius . . . The faith I have in Jack Smith's work is due to its certainty, which is the result of a passion reminiscent of Van Gogh's during his Potato Eaters period...
Abolish the Paupers. Elder Statesman Alcide de Gasperi talked the new line: "We must transform our party into an instrument fit for the times.'' Of Italy's 11.5 million families, he said, 1,375,000 could be called "paupers," 1,345,000 more are underprivileged, and only 1,274,000 have a "high standard of living." De Gasperi summed up: "Our notion of social justice is to raise the poorer classes to a higher standard of living, to narrow the difference between all classes, and, above all, to abolish the pauper class." It was the voting, however...
...Washington for his second tour, Cooper opposed the Bricker amendment, the tidelands bill and the Benson farm program. His main legislative achievement belongs to Cooper the practical politician rather than to Cooper the high-minded statesman. He got through an amendment fixing tobacco supports rigidly at 90% of parity, a triumph that endeared him to many of his tobacco-grower constituents...