Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...must have the offspring from these families, from which to get our statesmen, and to replenish our cities...
...final plenary session intent only on signing everything that needed signing and still catching the night boat for gay and glamorous Buenos Aires. On long tables Conference secretaries had placed what seemed to be treaties and agreements, each open at the last page for signatures. Jostling and squabbling the statesmen scrambled to squiggle. Delegates of several countries who had told the Conference they would not sign the Treaty on Women's Equal Civil & Political Rights rushed up to it with pens poised and were only stopped from signing by pickets hostile to the Treaty who kept loudly calling...
...mighty mingling of Indian war whoops and LaL., cheers, the soldiers of Bolivia and Paraguay stopped fighting in the swampy jungles of the Gran Chaco last week. Suddenly the chatter of tropical birds again seemed loud. Just before the eleven-day "Christmas Truce" was arranged by League of Nations statesmen (see p. 11 )-last year's Chaco "Christmas Truce" was arranged by Pope Pius XI-battling Paraguay pressed her recent supreme offensive to capture Bolivia's Fort Munoz. Whether Munoz. was captured just before or just after the truce's zero hour was a question...
...strong, non-parliamentary states-Russia and Germany-and is unable to retain her democratic forms. We must adopt a new Constitution, based solely on the President, excluding the party system." Thus read a momentous communique released last week by the "Pilsudski. Colonels," the tight little clique of soldier-statesmen who have ruled Poland for years under the aegis of walrus-mustached Marshal Josef Pilsudski whose whimsy is that he will not be President. For more than two years the Pilsudski Colonels have been drafting Poland's new Constitution, recognizing that Marshal Pilsudski cannot live forever, that Poland cannot always...
Nearly everyone who won the War has now been heard from. The mysterious and importunate friend who always urges statesmen to write their memoirs has finally prevailed on David Lloyd George. His first two fat volumes (918 pp.), telling his side of the story through 1916, are written with that shrewd candor and political zest that are as much his hall-mark as his bright eyes, flowing mane and bourgeois mustache. Historians should find these volumes of a challenging usefulness; literary critics will rate them as above the average for a non-professional writer; plain readers, who will find them...