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Plain Man. The old man was not a great orator; but the U.S. always stopped and listened when he spoke. He was not an impressive figure of a statesman: his baggy, old-fashioned suit was topped by a limp string of bow tie; his droopy eyelids, under bushy brows, made him look perpetually tired. But people always looked at him. An avowed pacifist, he was one of the "little group of willful men" who blocked Woodrow Wilson's 1917 plan to arm the merchant marine, and he also voted against World War I. But he left isolationism back...
...Lower California. . . . There is a large and deep body of water between the peninsula and the mainland of Mexico. In that water a fleet could almost be hidden. . . ." Bob Reynolds had one more little matter to be taken up-Wrangel Island, off the coast of Alaska. The cardboard statesman waxed lyrical as he described the barren, snow-covered island, its possible importance to future air routes. The first landing there was by the U.S. Navy in 1881. "But now," cried Bob Reynolds, "it is my understanding that Russia claims it is her island. Now, while we are in good relations...
...week's end reluctant Mohamed Ali Jinnah had worried himself into the last resort of a statesman: he was taken sick. His meeting with Gandhi would have to be postponed...
There was much argument as to the monster's antecedents. Most logical explanation was one adapted from the Idaho Sunday Statesman: Paul Bunyan, who used to fish the Snake River regularly, tied the shore-end of his sturgeon line to Babe, his vast blue ox, one hot day when sport was slow. Babe, nipped by a horsefly at the moment a sturgeon took the bait, twitched so violently that the huge fish was sent sailing all the way to Payette Lake. A jerk like that could well have given the creature a curvature of the spine (Slimy Slim...
This quaint view of Bretton Woods (taken by "Sagittarius" of London's New Statesman & Nation) was no stranger than some of the things that went on at the International Monetary Conference last week...