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Sirs: . . . Your article of the May 11 issue, entitled "Statesmanship" refers to continuation of the Dies Committee. The article asserts: "Once a loud Dies committee booster, the American Legion now looked the other way." The American Legion emphatically urged continuance of the Dies committee, as evidenced by the enclosed letter sent to every Representative on Feb. 26, 1942. Representative Joe Starnes, vice chairman of that committee, addressed the National Executive Committee of the Legion at Indianapolis on April 30, at which meeting continued support of the work and purposes of the Dies committee was voted...
...other days the name of Senator signified togas and statesmanship; Representative (of the people) was the finest word the Founding Fathers could find for a seat in the House. Now Congress was just the little fat whiskery man in the newspaper cartoons, forever falling on his face, leading his family to the public trough, his shirt front puffed out with the blowsy dignity of a burlesque clown. The only Congressional greats left are old men like Nebraska's Senator George W. Norris, Virginia's Senator Carter W. Glass-and they are past their prime...
Despite his slovenliness, Pierre Laval has the personal magnetism often found in men of powerful and candid unscrupulousness. Many who hate him are also perversely fascinated by him. His brand of statesmanship puts no premium on culture, and he is a widely ignorant man, even of such subjects as geography. A close observer said of Laval's terms as Foreign Minister: "Questions of international relations, alliances to make or not to make, the attitude to be taken with the League of Nations or on sanctions were all solved by him in relation to the number of votes he would...
...well seem as devastating as frost in a hothouse for orchids. But such people may take comfort in the thought that Professor Spykman is not infallible, that the cult of realism has its own limitations and coldbloodedness leads to its own kind of distortion. To others, tired of statesmanship by euphemism and eye-catching phonies, Spykman's plain talking seems a bracing corrective...
...beyond doubt, Sir Stafford had before him one of history's most difficult problems in statesmanship. In one respect he had already made what seemed an excellent start. As Britain's envoy it would be his privilege, if he wished, to stay in the Viceroy's elephantine palace in New Delhi. This red sandstone and white granite symbol of British rule stands on a hill overlooking the city and lifts a copper dome 177 feet against the hot Indian skies. Under the dome a huge crystal chandelier lights a marble throne room bounded by ten-foot torches...