Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding native statesmen of the Philippines-President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate and Senator Sergio Osmena, his sphinxlike senior partner in the Nationalist Party-arrived in Washington to see President Coolidge. They had bundled themselves up in unwonted overcoats crossing the Pacific to a chilly continent. But they had smiled confidently on the trip because when they left Manila (TIME, Oct. 17). They had heard that President Coolidge favored transferring the Philippines from military rule under the War Department to civilian administration under a special bureau of the Interior Department. This transfer was second only to Island Independence...
...When Statesmen Quezon and Osmena saw and talked with President Coolidge they were disappointed. President Coolidge had changed his mind, he said, about transfer from military to civilian administration, just yet. True, the Philippines need much of a civilian nature-in agriculture, education, road building- but President Coolidge thought advisors from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Interior and Commerce could furnish such help at once without necessitating a transfer...
...busts adorn the hall of the Reichstag, which is copiously bedecked with the stone images of Germany's Imperial statesmen & rulers...
Last week, through the medium of Major General Sir C. E. Caldwell, two volumes were published in London entitled Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, His Life and Diaries. As was to be expected, their contents were plentifully interlarded with vigorous attacks on the statesmen of the War and armistice periods, most of whom are still celebrities living in shadow of fame...
...Chancelleries of Europe experienced a thrill. What were these two statesmen up to? Enquiries were made and elicited from Spanish representatives in London and Madrid that the conversations between the two statesmen were no more than an exchange of official courtesies. Diplomats then put the whole matter down to an attempt on the part of Sir Austen to guide Spain back into the fold of the League of Nations. How else explain his friendliness for a nation that was not on good terms with the League...