Word: statesmanly
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...this exiled Irish statesman was something of a novelty. He was a rigid teetotaler. He was a reserved scholar who liked to solve mathematical problems, study Thomistic philosophy, play an organ. As an orator he was almost flat; he neither talked about personalities nor used extravagant imagery...
...bolster up Wang prestige, Japanese army bigwigs in China who operate the puppet strings have been demanding that a top-rank Japanese statesman be sent as Tokyo's first Ambassador to the new Nanking puppet show. This week General Nobuyuki Abe, Premier of Japan until last January, was named Special Envoy and Ambassador Plenipotentiary by the Son of Heaven...
That it is far from being unknown abroad also must be evident from the fact that King George VI and the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd Grorge, of Great Britain, are two of its representatives in Europe; as, I might add, the late King George V and that great French statesman, George Clemenceau, were for many years. I do not know if the officers of our illustrious organization will feel at liberty to tell anyone who does not bear the name of the Father of our Country about the work of our Society. If, however, Elmer Samson's wish...
Sweden's burly Premier Per Albin Hansson has been called "the Swedish Roosevelt." Swedes call Franklin Roosevelt "the American Hansson." Actually the two are not much alike. Franklin Roosevelt is a liberal aristocrat, estate-owner, stamp-collector, smile-flasher, compleat angler, statesman both in profession and profile. Premier Hansson looks like a cross between a pixie and a professional wrestler. He is of humble stock, self-educated, solemn. He lives in a tiny five-room house, and hangs around bowling alleys in his spare time. One similarity: U. S. citizens refer to their President either lovingly as Franklin...
...Most notable shortage was in self-restraint. All the material shortages had been long developing, but only recently have the Japanese begun howling about them. Not so long ago any statesman with the gall to criticize the Government as openly as Diet members have in the last month (TIME, Feb. 12) would have been obliged to commit honorable suicide. Newspapers have suddenly begun speaking out of turn. Said nationalistic Kokumin...