Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gesture. An era of peace follows in which the nations analyze themselves, reckoning the wild abandon, of youth or a business depression as the heritage of war. During this era, men as well as nations analyze themselves and their fellows. A host of memories is foisted upon the people. Statesmen, generals, politicians all, in the perspective of the years, gloss their blunders and magnify their names, Reputations are made by the stroke...
...topic in a speech last week welcoming the International Chamber of Commerce to Washington. Said he: "It is within the power of business men of the world to insist that this problem shall be met with sincerity, courage, and constructive action. It is within the power of statesmen to give to the world a great assurance for the future and a great moral victory for humanity...
General Pershing had two prime objections to U. S. soldiers in foreign forces: i) they would be infected by the low morale of the Allied troops; 2) they would learn only trench warfare. He pounded the table, talked as no general had ever before talked to foreign statesmen and soldiers. When they could not budge him, they made appeals behind his back to President Wilson. It was small wonder that General Pershing got the fixed notion that France and Britain were working to control U. S. troops and thus prevent the creation of a U. S. army as a means...
Statesman Mo. Statesman Stimson tried, failed two years ago to make peace between China and Russia by invoking the Kellogg Pact (TIME, Aug. 5, 1929). Ignoring him, Chinese and Soviet statesmen made their own peace at far away Habarovsk on Soviet soil (see map). But this peace has been followed by a host of complications, mostly about Russia's half interest in the Chinese Eastern Railway. Last week China's statesman Mo Teh-hui was busy tying up loose ends of the Peace in Moscow. Statesman Mo called at the Soviet Foreign Office, got down to exceedingly brass tacks with...
...comparatively unknown to the general public, though he has had his paintings hung in dozens of museums from Chicago, Ill. to Peshawar, India and has assiduously hunted celebrities for 40 years. The celebrities he hunts are always intellectual: artists, writers, professors, scientists. He pays little attention to tycoons or statesmen. Every few years he does a new picture of his friend George Bernard Shaw...