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...State Department," said he, "has lost all interest in questions involving Latin America." With the notable exception of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, "statesmen of the great nation to the north are completely absorbed in European problems and in no way take interest in plans for economic cooperation with . . . the western hemisphere...
...brush their teeth, to plow and plant ("trained farmers are as much needed as trained teachers"), how to make bricks and shoe horses. Then he taught them how to read and write, and something of history and literature. It was his idea to turn out, not scholars or statesmen, but skilled technicians and prosperous farmers. "No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world," he once wrote, "is long in any degree ostracized...
...pleasant to know Mr. Lear!" he once wrote in an autobiographical verse, and most eminent Victorians would have agreed. Critic John Ruskin put him "first of my hundred authors." Solemn statesmen referred to his Books of Nonsense in Parliament. "Sich," sighed Lear to his Learishly spelled diary, "is phame...
...Statesmen. The hard core of the opposition stayed drunk for three full days. Purpose of this blueprinted binge was not escape, but sabotage of the hated measure (a mild bill for government control of Japan's coal mines). When the Speaker called for a preliminary vote, alcoholic catcalls greeted him. Then surow mow (slow motion) set in. Opposition members slowly sauntered to the ballot box. One of them, loudly complaining of an injured leg, took two minutes to climb the six-step rostrum to the ballot box. Others, magnificently squiffed, zigzagged through the chamber, stopped to chat with friends...
...additional pair of discs, already cut is scheduled for release in a few months. These include Eliot reading "Difficulty of Statesmen," "Triumphal March," and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock...