Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brave in ceremonial beads, buckskin, war bonnets and ermine tails, six elder statesmen of Montana's Flathead Indian tribe ranged themselves one day last week behind the polished Washington desk of Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes. It was a great & grave occasion- the signing of the first tribal constitution under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (TIME, June 25, 1934). Secretary Ickes and Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier were as solemn as the Indians. Just as cameras were about to record the event for posterity a horrified Ickes press-agent spied, clinging to one Indian...
...Deal," Revealed little by little in Geneva leaks last week was the current status of "The Deal" which Italians and French statesmen have been in course of making with the British (TIME, Oct. 14). In Paris its technical and colonial aspects have now been negotiated outside the fevered atmosphere of Britain's General Election by Mr. Maurice Peterson, the quietly efficient British Foreign Office civil servant charged with Ethiopian affairs. Mr. Peterson and his French counterpart, Count Rene de Saint-Quentin, placed at the disposal of Sir Samuel, Premier Laval and Baron Aloisi last week the negotiated basis. Next...
...orgy of Chinese marksmanship a janitor and a onetime Minister of Justice fell, their winging being charged to the assassin. Everyone else's bullets hit nobody as nimble Chinese statesmen ran like rabbits and the Chinese militarists formed a hollow square around crumpled Wang...
...Bolshevik? It might be best, some Nanking statesmen were saying at week's end, for China to team up not with Imperial Japan but with Bolshevik Russia. After all, so many Russians, including Stalin, are Asiatics and Bolsheviks have plenty of zip. Guardedly the Nanking Government spokesman said: "China has not yet been forced to decide between Japan and Russia, but some time in the future, perhaps, China must make this momentous decision...
...fine the fact that the League is at last acting according to its Covenant, the Italian people are going to lose far more than they can possibly gain from their leader's private war. To just what extent a people may be held responsible for the acts of their statesmen is a nice philosophical point. All we in America can do is to avoid condemning the Italians themselves. For without tolerance, no real settlement of the Ethiopian or any other war is possible...