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Stimson, 77, soldier of World War I, veteran of many a diplomatic battle, enlightened and nonpartisan elder statesman. Henry Stimson was astonished by the "shopworn catchwords and objections." Said...
...Japan. In Germany, the essential need was to re-educate the people away from Naziism, through magazines, booklets, newsreels, radio programs, etc. How good a job OWI could do of selling the story of democracy to the blacked-out peoples of Europe, no one could tell. A cynical European statesman, appraising OWI's work, had cracked: "Ah, Americans ! Masters of publicity, babes in propaganda!" But General Eisenhower said: "We don't much care whether you call it ABC, XYZ, or OWI, we need OWI's personnel and physical apparatus for . . . work in [occupied] and liberated countries...
...further concession to local and foreign pressure, the Argentine Government had already announced that it would free its political prisoners. It actually freed some 265. Invited back from exile in Montevideo was Argentina's revered elder statesman, walrus-mustached Alfredo Palacios, a vigorous antifascist, to resume his old job as president of La Plata University...
Governor James H. ("Jimmie") Davis of Louisiana, backwoodsy singer-composer (You Are My Sunshine), found half an hour in his weekly gubernatorial schedule to take up where he left off when he turned statesman. Baton Route's radio station WJBO announced a regular Saturday night
...form, bore us so much that . . . often politicians can hardly get a meeting together. . . . One prominent candidate found himself addressing his chauffeur and the janitor of a public hall and no one else the other night. . . . Today the Canadian political audience looks like ... a cargo of dead haddock. The statesman gazing into these cold, unblinking eyes ... is frightened to say anything he would not repeat in church...