Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Verdun, this ghastly irregularity spreads panic and consternation through the high command, has repercussions far outside the war zone on Press, Church and Business. However, unlike Playwright Chlumberg, who tried to fix original responsibility for the conflict, Playwright Shaw never penetrates as high as the nation's statesmen, as deep as the nation's populace. He is willing to concentrate his indignation on the Generals who run the war in such a way that men get killed. What young Mr. Shaw really hates is not War but Death...
...younger men who combine to a gratifying extent the qualities of both scholar and teacher. As time passes, these men will themselves constitute the group the department at present lacks; meanwhile their comparative youth ensures close contact and sympathy between faculty and students. Were the lack of 'elder statesmen' the only ground for criticizing the department, Harvard might feel fairly satisfied with is instruction in government...
Such were last week's manifestations of the continuing crisis between Japan and Russia. Meanwhile Japanese statesmen had something even more serious to worry about. News leaked out that the Soviet Government had just concluded a secret treaty with China's Nanking Government, promising mutual assistance in case either country should be attacked by Japan...
...battalions on the Nazi model or as combatant additions to the present army, which has already been increased from 30,000 to 38,000 men by short-term enlistments. Most of Europe had been expecting this, received the news calmly. Not so the Little Entente. In Bucharest, Prague, Belgrade, statesmen sputtered melodramatically that if Hungary followed Austria's lead, Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia would mobilize. For the record all three sent notes of pained protest to little Austria, reserving the right at a later date "to make public the measures" they might take to protect their interests...
...League of Nations which had met in London to deal with the Rhineland crisis. The Council had voted Germany guilty of violating the Versailles Treaty and the Locarno Pact but had done nothing toward punishing these violations. As their final decision at London last week, the Geneva statesmen adjourned indefinitely to meet again in Geneva...