Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner was the inauguration over, the captains and the troops departed, than Premier Manuel Azana drove to the Palace and insisted on handing in his resignation. Worried President Alcala Zamora called a meeting of statesmen, asked Premier Azana to form another government, which he grudgingly agreed...
Patiently the statesmen explained that this was no time for a war with China. Japan's business and finances were in parlous state. Japan's second-biggest indus-try is clothing China and providing her with manufactured articles. Chinese troops cannot fight a modern army, but China has one terrible weapon, the boycott. An effective boycott of Japanese goods would be catastrophe. This reasoning impressed elderly Japanese generals, but not the younger officers. They waited for a 301st Incident. They got it with the execution of Captain Shintaro Nakamura by Manchurian troops (TIME, Sept. 28). Start officers kicked over...
There will be many Christmas messages this year expressed by word of mouth, in letters, through the papers and editorials. Some will be cheery, some calmly happy, some bitter, but all tempered by a slow thoughtfulness. Gold standards have been dropped, statesmen have grown suddenly old, banks have failed, nations have rotted on the vine of empire. Such are the things which make men show and thoughtful. Economists are bewildered by economics, reason has not led the world to reason, depression seems a long lane down which there is no corner. And on this lane the Vagabond must leave...
John Drinkwater says that we should have a better type of statesmen if they were compelled to read Shakespeare's works every week. "It would steady their minds, and they need steadying...
...idea, for we find in some of the plays the mirror help up to the modern statesman's nature, sometimes terribly close to the truth, sometimes grotesquely like one's reflection in a hall of mirrors. Indeed, we should not be surprised to learn that some of our Western statesmen had already made an industrious study of Shakespeare and borrowed, deliberately or unconsciously, some of the remarkable economic notions so eloquently preached by Jack Cade, as reported in the second part of King Henry the Sixth, Vowing that there should be reform in the land, he made rash promises...