Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Dec. 21). Last week they destroyed their first report, which had left them frostily at odds around their oval table. Then, spurred by the approach of Christmas, they swiftly drafted a second report, signed it unanimously and were through. Meeting at The Hague in mid-January, statesmen of the Great Powers will act on the report, will once more "finally decide'' what Germany must pay on her: 1) non-postponable Reparations; 2) postponable Reparations; 3) short-term debts...
...this promise General Chiang stuck, disregarded all appeals from Nanking to come back and make some sort of compromise with the Cantonese statesmen who had forced him out (TIME, Dec. 28). They in Nanking last week dominated one of the most savagely bickering sessions of the Central Executive Committee of the Nationalist Party or Kuomintang ever held. Aloof like General Chiang stood his brother-in-law, Dr. T. V. Soong, China's No. 1 banker and reputedly the only Chinese who as Finance Minister can get enough money together to keep a Chinese Government going. In Shanghai last week...
...pain and suffering. . . . From this terrifying spectacle which the world presents we must raise our eyes to Heaven. . . ." Among the sorrows of the Church, said the Pope, are difficulties in Spain, Mexico, Russia-"a sort of triangle over which hovers the greatest menace."* The Holy Father again regretted "that statesmen do not think of the hand of God and do not turn to God." Exception: the U. S. where on Thanksgiving Day "it has been remembered [by the President in his proclamations] to thank God for past benefits and also to thank Him that in America troubles...
Heaven's Cousin. In Tokyo the Son of Heaven, bespectacled Emperor Hirohito, was advised by Prince Saionji, the Last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen," to bring the Army under stricter Imperial control last week and did so, appointing as Chief of Staff his right royal cousin, fierce-mustached Field Marshal Prince Kotohito Kanin...
...over the Nanking Government, these leaders might be slain by soldiers still loyal to General Chiang who would set himself up again as President. Meanwhile Nanking weltered in a series of patriotic riots by Chinese "students" who have not studied for months, preferring to hurl bricks and assault Chinese statesmen in protest against their "weak policy...