Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the law of 1917, as administered by the Cardenas Government, Mexican statesmen claim to be gradually "restoring" the country's lands to what they claim was the "communal status" of these lands centuries ago, prior to the arrival of the Spanish conquerors and their land-lordly Church. Today the Mexican peasant who is set down by the Government on a piece of land retains title to it only so long as he and his direct descendants live and continue to work it, after which the land automatically reverts to the "Mexican community...
...Shanghai rumor was to the effect that the Government was going to be reshuffled in a Communist direction, with increasingly radical Chinese statesmen being given more and more influential posts. Although Japanese were extremely nervous, watching Chinese developments catlike, their Embassy spokesman in Shanghai said: "I do not think the situation will immediately take a serious turn. Remember that Chiang Kai-shek only got where he is today by pursuing a strong anti-Communist program, and we do not believe he will become sincerely proCommunist. Nor do we think the Soviets will give him much aid, because his anti-Communist...
...excluding the wise cracking of Mr. Westbrook Pegler are concentrated with considerable unanimity on the current extra-curricular activities on the Iberian peninsula. And with all the nations of the continent winning battles on the playing fields of Spain, with British battleships clearing their decks and with British statesmen expressing "concern", the Dagos are providing very sensational entertainment indeed...
...Politics" is happily free from any barren dialectic exercises undertaken for their own sake and from any wanton quoting of the Marxist fathers and saints. It is one of the outstanding virtues of the book that it proves its points not by citing the prophets but by allowing capitalists, statesmen, and theorists to damn themselves out of their own mouths. If it had no other value this book would still be justified by the inane, blind and cruel remarks it gathers together from the speeches and writings of the contemporary great...
...third and greatest negative established at Buenos Aires is that European statesmen are now joined by American statesmen in unanimous failure to discover any definition of what constitutes "aggression." Abortive also were attempts to solve the Chaco boundary dispute between Bolivia & Paraguay. All Christmas Day and right up to the time Secretary of State Hull's steamer sailed for New York, the would-be peacemakers were still haggling. They broke off to bid him goodby...