Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since governments act very often on the basis of documents, notes, telegrams, cabled messages and written memoranda, why do not unscrupulous propagandists introduce forged documents before the eyes, of statesmen whose minds they seek to influence? They do. Such forgery is constantly practiced, and as constantly guarded against by all responsible governments. Last week the New York World announced that one of its correspondents had become aware in Washington of an adept propaganda forger who made the following proposition...
...large room on the second floor of a small grey house forms the sleeping and working quarters of a Dictator only 31 years old, whom elder statesmen held uneasily and attentively in mind last week. One enters, climbs a neat, unvarnished stair, and is stopped by two rugged guards in black-braided baggy white trousers, red fezzes, pirate sashes. Their pay is $12 a month. Firearms are by Mauser and Anfaldo. These ornate banditti are mountaineers of the tribe of Mati, and they guard their tribal Chief, Ahmed Bey Zogu, who is nominally President and actually Dictator of Albania...
From Tirana, Albanian Capital, a London Daily Mail correspondent sent news even more reassuring: "There are no Italian troops whatever in Albania." Yet, such is the persistence of the war rumor (TIME, Jan. 10) that major statesmen in the chief European capitals found time to inform correspondents last week that Albania is "a perilous zone ... a looming danger . . . portent . . . menace...
...remote region, so long slumberously out of the world, seemed to be kindling again from the sparks struck by Soviet ideals. The human fuel there is crude and lumpy; but so are the logs one needs for a great fire. It is the dream of Soviet Russians that their statesmen may become the successors to the great kindlers of Asia: Alexander, Jenghiz Khan, his grandson Kublai Khan and Tamburlaine...
...realm of knowledge, there is "the influence of public opinion upon the foreign policy of the Third [present] French Republic," through an analysis of which Dr. Eber Malcolm Carroll of Duke University may help U. S. statesmen make sense with puzzling Paris...