Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly, Marshal Yen Hsi-shan was installed as Minister of Interior of the new Nationalist Government. At last it could be said that a single Cabinet contains all the outstanding soldiers and statesmen of China. The occasion made it appropriate if not imperative to explain just what the Nationalist State is. Available last week was much new and authoritative information which may be summarized thus...
...presidential palace of Bolivia. And during these demonstrations: the Quaker President-elect watches the waves from the battleship carrying him on his tour of friendship; the Pan-American Conference opens with false assurances of cheer in the face of absent Argentina and the two quarrelsome neighbors; the statesmen of Europe meet at Lugano, not even trying to dissimulate the seriousness of their situation...
Frenchmen naturally received the Cahill Report, last week, with marked distaste. They do not like to appear too prosperous. Their Parliament has not yet ratified the Franco-U.S. debt settlement (TIME, May 10, 1926); and their statesmen like to repeat that France is too poor to pay. Also negotiations are about to begin for the purpose of revising the Dawes Plan (TIME, Sept. 24, et seq.). France wishes her statesmen to attend these solely on the basis that there shall be no scaling down of the reparations owed by Germany to War-devastated and impoverished France...
...President of Argentina, famed Dr. Hypolito Irigoyen (TIME, Oct. 22) is among the strongest and wisest of her potent Socialist statesmen. During his previous administration (1916-22) Dr. Irigoyen introduced the secret ballot, and as a progressive legislator he stands honorably to the fore. On the other hand he does not hesitate to disperse unruly mobs, whether laborite or communist, with ruthless rifle fire...
Pach in his recent book states, "Glancing through the rotogravure supplement of the paper and enjoying the photographs of swimmers, statesmen and stage-dancers, one's eye was caught by the big flag, and one idly read the caption to see whether this was a belated poster from some Y. M. C. A. drive during the recent war, or an invitation to prepare for the next one, in Nicaragua or a place like that, or whether it was not just the advertisement of a firm such as supplies uniforms for military schools and training camps--a masculine pendant...