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...bogged down in Algeria? De Gaulle's continental allies regard his idea of a European conference as just a device to establish French hegemony in Europe and to exclude Britain from the Continent permanently. As for the idea of a European referendum, the majority of Western European statesmen seemed to share the feeling of a Roman pundit who noted tartly that "Italian politicians mostly feel they have enough trouble with the voters...
...convenience, the British government would do much better to tear down No. 10 entirely and build something new. No. 10 is far too small for the offices and consultation rooms the modern Prime Minister requires; it has only one accessible door (the back door leads to the garden), and statesmen often have to brush by the butcher's boy delivering the day's meat. But, being British, no one considered it; No. 10 will be rebuilt...
Only at home must we lose face. In the childish and vindictive words and behavior of men who should be our statesmen, we are still taunted regarding these things, all of which were borne with, honor...
...Every plane could be scrapped, every stockpile destroyed, every soldier mustered out, and if the original reasons for holding arms were still present, the world would not have been disarmed. Arms would simply be in a momentary state of suspension, preparatory to new and greater arms." ¶ "Many statesmen feel that weapons are in themselves evil, and that they should be eliminated, as you would crush a snake . . . I doubt though whether the tension created by the existence of arms is as great as the tension that would arise if there were no arms or too few arms...
Even with an extended campaign, the best man is not always selected (Clay, Webster and Greeley were all defeated by lesser statesmen). Nor is a razzle-dazzle road show a prerequisite to victory on Election Day: William McKinley, in 1896, and Warren G. Harding, in 1920, won easily with "front-porch" campaigns, letting the groups of voters and the politicians come to them. And Franklin Roosevelt used the pressures of wartime as a reason for limiting his campaign appearances outside Washington to a bare minimum...