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...appointed Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch as his personal adviser...
...Republican who has already contributed some concrete principles to the postwar discussion is Herbert Hoover. This week, in Collier's, Elder Statesman Hoover and Hugh Gibson, his onetime Ambassador to Belgium, completed a series of four notable articles...
Thus the capital made holiday. In so doing it also honored the memory of Ch'ii Yuan, high-minded poet and statesman of Chu, the feudal state that covered much of central China some 2,200 years ago. Ch'ii sought vainly to ferret corruption from his government, was slandered and exiled. Heartbroken, he composed his famed poem Li Sao (Dissipation of Sorrow), then on the fifth day of the fifth moon drowned himself in the Mi-Lo River. Legend relates that kind fishermen tried to recover his body, thereby began the custom of the dragon-boat races...
...This Fabian Society seemed just what I wanted. . . . We began by imposing on the Liberal Party ... a socialist program. . . . We . . . founded the London School of Economics, which has produced Beveridge; added The New Statesman to the weekly press; established an independent labour party...
...statesman who means to maintain peace (and yet not play power politics) "must with cold calculation organize and regulate the politics of power." This is no quotation from Goebbels but from Walter Lippmann.* In U.S. Foreign Policy, Mr. Lippmann devotes 177 pages to a lucid discussion of what has been right and what is now wrong in the U.S. notions of its place in the world...