Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fourth-of-July orator, so the oft-told story goes, was delivering a speech about Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln when, ready for the windup, he forgot their names. Glancing quickly toward the notes stuffed in his inside coat pocket, the flustered speaker hurriedly praised "those great American statesmen, Hart Schaffner and Marx...
...idea of the [July 20] deadline, and considered that it put Mendès-France in a weak position, you might as well know that the French people did like the idea of such a deadline, because that was something entirely new in our rotten politics. Our previous unimaginative statesmen did not 'know anything better than stalling. The risk taken by P. M.F. worked like a fresh wind in a dead man's house...
...Americans and the British, as though by tacit agreement, stop all fighting except for token, scattered artillery fire. In the midst of it all, a German general flies over to discuss the crisis with the Allied commanders, to see to it that the war of the generals, the statesmen and the profiteers goes on in spite of the stale mate and war sickness that have driven the common soldiers of all the armies into a sense of universal brotherhood and so to mutiny and ceasefire...
Locarno was universally hailed; Britain's Chamberlain, France's Briand and Germany's Stresemann all got Nobel Peace Prizes. For a decade, statesmen spoke glowingly of the "spirit of Locarno." Germans were delighted: "Germany, which two years ago was isolated, spurned beneath the victors' heels, and seemed the poorest ragamuffin in Europe, today . . . becomes a factor of might once more," crowed the Berliner Tageblatt. Reassured by German pledges of good behavior, 1) Britain and France withdrew all occupation forces from the Rhineland, which Germany promised solemnly to leave demilitarized; 2) the League of Nations admitted Germany...
Such problems are for the statesmen and diplomats of oil, who make their in tricate deals in New York, London or Pittsburgh. The working U.S. oilmen are sure of their own offshore empire, and they are supremely confident that they can drill through almost any depth of water...