Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apart from shifting their whole attitude, so as to take Soviet Russia seriously and respectfully for the first time, the achievements of League statesmen in Geneva last week were these...
...conduct of Foreign Affairs is neither so brilliant and romantic as the writers of fiction and the producers at Hollywood would make it, nor so tedious and dry as the memoirs of statesmen, with their concomitant quotations of dull documents, might lead you to believe. It is a career with a constant heavy routine and something of the emergency quality of the physician's profession, since no one can know when the ills that the body politic is heir to will break forth, and when the outbreaks occur, first aid is always sought of the diplomatic representatives. No Secretary...
...countries of the world are applying themselves to the problem of immediate mitigation and the ultimate disappearance of war. Among the elements which go to make for the success of a policy of peace and perhaps the most important is the element of friendly contact and personal acquaintance between statesmen which have developed in the course of conferences on these important subjects. Mr. Kellogg's visit to Paris in 1928, Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to Washington in the Autumn of 1929, and Mr. Stimson's sojourn in London during the Naval Conference, all have given proof of the value...
...well might U. S. statesmen call on Europe to take a rather larger, a rather kinder, a rather better attitude. But the only direct U. S. rebuttal in Washington last week was a yelp of mental pain, quite lacking in dignified rebuke or injured moral rectitude. Yelped Representative Bertrand H. Snell, onetime upstate New York cheesemaker, chairman of the House Rules Committee: "Why is it that when a group of internationalists get together, they always decide that Uncle Sam must be the goat...
...only trouble with asking an international congress of businessmen to act on such a syllogism is that businessmen are accustomed to think of Disarmament as political, as no business of theirs, as the business of statesmen. Wailed Chicagoan Strawn, who in other respects cooperated closely with the President last week: "The minute the International Chamber of Commerce touches politics we're through...