Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This diplomatic ace in the hole, together with Stalin's frank disclosure of the number of Soviet divisions in Eastern Europe and the more personal, friendly working relationship with other statesmen which Russian spokesmen are now creating, offers little encouragement to the protagonists of World War III. Russia, while as yet making no major concessions, is demonstrating an increasing willingness to "talk things over." And when nations are willing to discuss their problems and give ear to one another's grievances, the chances for successful agreement are incalculably multiplied...
...ultimate formulation of Russian policy and how they are manifested," according to the Forum management, headed by Jerome L. Rappaport 2L, president. In the 20-minute addresses of the speakers, an attempt will be made to visualize "dynamics of the Russian mind" and discover the "objectives of Soviet statesmen...
...answered last week by U.S. Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson, in an address before the University of Buffalo. Jackson declared that the trial's fundamental justification lay in its attempt to outlaw aggressive war and to destroy "the old theory that international law bears on states and not on statesmen [shielded by] 'sovereignty.' . . ." He reasserted his belief that this interpretation was actually implicit in existing international law, which the Allies had merely strengthened. Said he: "At all events, whether they be regarded as an innovation or a codification, those principles are law today...
...only country whose governing party has practiced this method [mass persecution of minorities, bloody suppression of all opposition] of maintaining itself. Opposition ... to existing regimes today will earn the same fate in much of eastern Europe as it did in Germany. . . . There is great need that the statesmen pick up where the lawyers leave off at Nürnberg...
...column called Words to Live By appears each week in This Week. Authors, philosophers, statesmen, educators and plain citizens choose and comment on quotations, famous or obscure, as a steering gear for readers in "these rudderless days." For No. 22 in the series, Stringfellow ("Winkie") Barr, president of St. John's College, last week plucked a 2,000-year-old thought from Aristotle: "All men desire by nature to know." Wrote Barr...