Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young mustards were after still more exalted human game. Their ambition was to machine-gun none other than "The Last of the Genro," or long-venerated Elder Statesmen who were responsible with Japan's late, great Emperor Meiji for opening up the Empire, mechanizing it and making Japan a Great Power. The last of the Genro is 86-year-old Prince Kimmochi Saionji, outwardly a very gentle old man who asks thoughtful questions of the greatest living Japanese and never makes any comment or suggestions himself except to the Son of Heaven...
Significance. The great Japanese statesmen killed or attacked last week were all models of moderation, budget-balancing, diplomatic conciliation and PEACE. The significance of the fact that they were attacked is to be found in the exact opposites of all they stood for. The significance is WAR. Neither attacked nor threatened was any "strong" or so-called "Fascist" Japanese. Their names began to appear only when Tokyo's smartest correspondents started guessing who was going to be the next Premier...
...broader significance is the trend discernible in the Church League for Industrial Democracy's actions. In recent years bishops and elder statesmen of such churches as the Methodist and the Episcopal have issued long, vague, liberal pronouncements at their annual gatherings. By last week it was observable that young, zealous churchmen were attempting to put their elders' perfunctory liberal views into what in the churches passes for action...
Loudly recalled by His Majesty's Loyal Opposition were the many occasions on which U. S. and British statesmen have proclaimed that their countries will "never again" fight each other. Abruptly putting these professions to a British test last week, Liberal Geoffrey Mander asked the Prime Minister directly whether His Majesty's Government would be willing to consider sharing their naval bases with the U. S. Navy...
...Fighting Services. Counsel for the defense loudly objected to the Prosecution's failure to state in the murder charge "the difference between public and private acts, the intrinsic nature of the Imperial Army, and the fact that the Supreme Army Command had been disturbed by Senior Statesmen and plutocrats...