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Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. appointed small, sharp-eyed Dr. Isador Lubin, White House factfinder and economic adviser, to represent the U.S. on the Reparations Commission. This week Dr. Lubin was preparing for a trip to Moscow, where the Commission will sit. At the same time, Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch was expected in London to explore Germany's postwar economics, talk with Winston Churchill about what should be exacted from Germany...
...against reparations to the extent imposed at Versailles because he was sure Germany could never pay and that the economic burden would breed another war. By Washington account, Elder Statesman Baruch will join this time in the proposition that if reparations are heavy enough, Germany will never be able to go to war again...
...Liberal Party began to decline, Lloyd George lost power, became Britain's premier Elder Statesman. He still spoke with authority-but only for himself. In time his white-thatched, black-caped figure appeared less & less often in London, more & more often on his Surrey and Caernarvonshire estates. But World War II brought him to his feet in Commons to give Prime Minister Chamberlain a piece of his mind for sending the Finns "too little and too late...
...born a statesman. At 17 he was a friend, on a plane of intellectual equality, of the Royal Governor of Virginia. At 24 he was one of the five most prosperous lawyers in the colony. At 26, the builder of Monticello was the master of broad acres, honored by the British Government, a member of the House of Burgesses. At 33, the author of the Declaration of Independence was, with Washington and Franklin, one of the few Americans who belonged on any list of the world's great...
...press put the dictator on the spot. Snorted Rio's Diario Carioca: "The 'Additional Act' is stillborn." Snapped former deputy Dario de Almeida Magalhaes: "The 'Additional Act' . . . Additional to what? ... To a constitution which doesn't exist!" Sneered sober old-line statesman Virgilio de Mello Franco: "All the fascism that can be maintained has been maintained...