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Last week, in the New Republic, Sir Bernard wrote that since 1921 Russia has been ruled by "Communists who had ceased to practice communism," and that chief among the changelings is "home statesman" Joseph Stalin. Other points: world revolution is out as an objective of the Russian state; the prevailing moral standards of Russia are much the same as those in Britain and the U.S.; Britain and the U.S. can get along with Russia if they choose, and the British are determined to do so. Wrote Sir Bernard...
There are glimpses of the amateur statesman Polk conspiring with (and getting double-crossed by) Mexican General Santa Anna, who was supposed to sell out Mexico for $30,000,000. When war came, Polk was all but crushed by his Presidential burdens. Says DeVoto: "Deliberately carrying twin torches through a powder magazine ... he made no preparation for either war. . . . He did not know how to make war or how to lead a people." Result : "Time after time the extemporized organizations broke down. . . . Millions of dollars were wasted, months were lost." But at last "the first modern industrial war somehow . . . succeeded...
...through the war to a straight coalition, khaki-elected, postwar government, dragging Liberal and Labor defectives willy-nilly. Whether, now 68, he hoped to retain his personal ascendancy after the war was beside the point (he had said: "I have no personal ambitions"). But that Winston Churchill, the world statesman, was cannily bolstering his political base at home was a fact of world importance...
...Moines, surrounded by Iowa's fabulous black loam, is in the heart of U.S. farm country. There last week Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover, talking to the nation and twelve members of the Midwest Governors' Conference, got quickly to the heart of the U.S. farm problem...
...Statesman at Play & Work. In a graphically described roadhouse ("Around a corner an arch of stout knotty pine opened into a big living room lit from skulls of longhorn cattle with electric bulbs in them set in a row round the varnished log walls"), Crawford is seen at play in blue-striped pajamas with a statuesque torch singer. In time he acquires a semi-Fascist radio station, is surrounded by more & more sinister henchmen. It becomes Tyler's business to take the rap for Crawford before a Federal grand jury and to be publicly repudiated by the demagogue...