Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...straight mile of tanbark along the southern edge of Hyde Park, is as sacred to British horsemen as Shakespeare's tomb is to poets, Westminster to statesmen. It is the King's Road (the name is a British attempt to pronounce Route du Rois), the path that ancient sovereigns took when they rode from Westminster to hunt in the royal forests. Here Queen Victoria used to drive in her barouche, smiling grimly under her swivel-topped black parasol. Here King George takes his genteel canters. Here the morning sun shines on the finest horses, the best cut breeches...
...most people carry from History 1 is of the indefinable air of contemper-anconsness which Professor Webster gave to the whole period from the Congress of Vienna to the World War. Part of the effect came from the impassive manner in which he pronounced critical judgement on long dead statesmen with all the genial dogmatism of an old friend; part from the illuminating anecdotes which punctuate his lectures...
...stupid obstinacy, but from the genuine belief which he shared with Wilson that public opinion is not a static condition but that it is a thing alive and growing, capable of response to stimulation and direction of public leaders. Thus the function of men who aspire to be statesmen in a democracy is not to sit idly by while fortuitous circumstances sweep public opinion this way and that and then place themselves placidly in accord with every chance fluctuation, but rather it is their duty to participate actively in the conscious formation of intelligent opinion. that was the type...
...been an invalid for some years and had delegated his authority to the Crown Prince as Regent in November, 1921. Following this conference, Baron Tanaka, (the author of the alleged memorial) is declared to have been sent to Europe and America "to ascertain secretly the attitude of important statesmen" toward the Nine-Power Treaty. The last visit of Baron Tanaka to Europe and America occurred in 1913-1914. It is unnecessary to belabor this analysis, have taken only the first three pages, but it is possible to continue for page after page, pointing out contradictions and inaccuracies. That an official...
Minor League States including the British Dominions had begun last week by demanding that the League take action of some sort or at least that the Assembly name the "aggressor" (Japan). But slowly, artfully Sir John and other statesmen of the Great Powers got the minor nations in hand. As London's famed Spectator has said, "The motto of Sir John Simon is apparently l'artifice, l'artifice, et toujours l'artifice." Last week artful John, a lawyer accustomed to receive the largest fees charged in the Empire, made short work of such whippersnappers as, for example, the Delegate...