Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dearth of any other kind of oratory than the perniciously emotional. One has only to listen to the average political harangues, or to read the Congressional Record, to realize to what depths public speaking has sunk in America. Both our politicians, and those we like to call our statesmen, have no compunctions about dragging into any speech, whatever the occasion, Washington, Lincoln,--even God Almighty, who is invoked in the name of Republicans, Democrats, Irishmen, Poles, reactionaries and radicals. He who combines reason with emotion is indeed a rarity. The result is that no public speaker is taken seriously, with...
...months have statesmen of the Great Powers striven so hard and so confusedly as they strove last week, turning the concert of nations into a jazz symphony of Peace & War, now sweet, now wild...
...based partly on the British proposal for a similar Permanent Disarmament Commission which was to have had one tooth: the signatories were to promise to "advise" with one another in case of violation. Last week the Conference bureau promised to discuss the U.S. draft next January and most statesmen bandied compliments with Wafter Wilson. Alone did Benito Mussolini's spokesman Marchese Meli-Lupidi Soranga rap out: "My Government may perhaps one day consider the question of control of armaments manufacture, but not before principles have been laid down in regard to quantitative and qualitative limitation of armaments...
Budgeting for Battle. Simultaneously in Paris and in Tokyo the statesmen of two Great Powers settled their war budgets last week. Not a single sentence of Japan's budget debate passed her censors. Tongue-waggling in the French Chamber produced an international sensation, touched off screaming eight-column headlines such as RUSSIA OFFERS TROOPS TO FRANCE! Next day two-column heads began "France Denies . . ." but close observers noted that no actual denial was made of what Deputy Léon Archimbaud actually said. As Rapporteur of the Military Budget, M. Archimbaud is one of the five French civilians privileged...
...Murder Farm." In Geneva a session of the Assembly of the League of Nations especially convened to end the everlasting war between Bolivia and Paraguay over the Gran Chaco achieved nothing more last week than an international radio hookup over which League statesmen mouthed fervent peace appeals...