Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Azcarate Pino, military attaché of the Mexican Embassy at Washington; an unnamed Turkish Minister of Marine; Comptroller General Lopez of Bolivia; an unnamed chef de cabinet of Brazil; an assorted handful of Chinese war lords. The inferences of the correspondence was that almost all of these foreign statesmen had accepted bribes as a quid pro quo in U. S. armament sales abroad. As unofficial protests piled up at the State Department, Secretary Hull attempted to pass them off with a single shrewd remark...
...Cabinet and as Premier boldly forced through unpopular legislation lengthening the term of French military service. This gave la Patrie immeasurably better trained young men to shoulder her rifles and fire her 753 when the War broke. In those days M. Barthou was one of the first middle-aged statesmen to be hailed as "The Savior of France"- and to lose his soldier...
Today as never before the individual is prey to ever-changing currents of opinion. Modern methods of communication bring to the loneliest dwelling the latest dicta of statesmen. How is the average uneducated citizen to distinguish between the truth and demagoguery? The perfect case in point is that of Germany, where millions literally bow down before the emotional appeals of as fanatical a leader as ever ruled a nation. The hope of western civilization lies in those countries which have succeeded in keeping lighted the lamp of truth, and the hope of those countries lies in their institutions of learning...
...usual, the statesmen did not wait for the gun. Hardly had they shaken hands with their favorite concierges before they were padding about the corridors, lobbying in each other's bedrooms...
...with no new worlds to conquer, capitalist industry will be unable to take care of the "surplus population," creating a mob of millions of destitute workers. According to Corey's charts and figures the increasingly unequal distribution of wealth, despite the claims of the boomtime-era bankers and statesmen, or the promises of Niraism, is tragic, but under the system unavoidable. In a chapter called "The Crisis of the American Dream," Author Corey writes glowingly of the early American Democracy before it was overtaken by modern capitalism. Originating in revolution, it was dedicated to the ideals of Liberty, Democracy...