Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aware that he is making a new definition of peace, or any definition of it. His treatment is allusive; his mind is expressing itself on a different aspect of the subject. Between the lines, however, one can recognize a conception unlike the one ordinarily in the minds of statesmen, and certainly differentiated from the average man's conception. Mr. Hoover's conception, by the very nature of the subject, is not easy to put in words. One can approach his definition by stating its opposite. The common assumption is that peace is a status, or that it is a static...
Three of Europe's most distinguished statesmen rushed through the 58th session of the Council of the League of Nations last week with the haste of a trio of Babbits snatching a quick lunch. Drowsy old Aristide Briand, veteran French Foreign Minister, shambled out of The Hague Conference (see p. 25) to a wagonlit, woke up next morning in Paris, where he conversed for a half hour with "Ramsay MacDonald's Yes-Man," British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, sped him on his way to Geneva. Next day he boarded an-other wagonlit, woke up at Geneva. Waiting there...
...that notorious perennial: Is Vilna the Capital of Lithuania - which it is according to the Lithuanian Constitution; or is it a Polish city - which it is according to the Polish warriors who have held it since 1919?* After putting this agenda in the capable hands of underlings - lesser statesmen such as Quinones de Leon of Spain - for the customary debate, the Quick Lunchers prepared to entrain for the London Conference (see col. 2). Cor respondents facing a dire dearth of news cornered Mr. Henderson and chorused, "Come on, tell us how you came to be called 'Uncle Arthur!" "Certainly...
...recent Tardieu memorandum to the Powers seriously jeopardized the Conference in advance (TIME, Jan. 6), by dragging in such issues as "Freedom of the Seas" (which Statesmen Hoover and MacDonald had agreed is too inflammable to touch) and by disparaging the Kellogg Pact, which they months ago announced would be the cornerstone of their Great Peace (TiME, Oct. 21). If hard, kinetic, calculating M. Tardieu does not retreat at London a long way from his earlier positions there will be nothing to do but make a pact of less than five signatories, without France, or call the Conference a failure...
...debts to the United States for they would seem to be paying the running expenses of the United States instead of helping her to pay off Liberty Loans. Finally, the United States tariff policy, and the inevitable economic laws relating to international trade may make our worthy Senators and statesmen realize the futility of trying to make Germany make the 'unprotected' payments provided for in the Young-Plan...