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...more dangerous, and more probable, chance that the plans will never win Capitol Hill, or the nation. There is the possibility that the voters, if sufficiently aroused, could exert enough pressure to obtain the money necessary to implement the proposals the President's advisers, and the European statesmen, are considering; but the plan must be sold first, and few real attempts in that direction have been made. To convince a people already groaning under their tax load that even more gifts abroad are not only necessary, but desirable, is a tall order, and there can be no better time...
...During the intermissions we could introduce the greatest living personalities from every field of life: church dignitaries, scientists, statesmen, farmers, the working class, Jews, Arabs and Negroes. We might even ask Uncle Joe to say a few words and . . . De Gaulle, and Gandhi, the King of Norway and De Valera. . . . "This is the eleventh hour of civilization, and music is the universal language . . . My plan is good for five years and the emergency will last that long...
...oversimplifications Mr. Wallace indulges in are dangerous because they delude people into thinking there is some magic way of getting world peace. ... It would be a change if he could forget his apocalyptic rhetoric a bit and get down to the level of mundane facts and figures with which statesmen have to deal...
...caught me in a restaurant and held me from 11:30 to 3 o'clock. . . . He had been reading about the days when Calhoun, Clay, Webster, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and a few others were alive and active. In those days, he said to me, there were statesmen. . . . 'You members,' he said to me, ought to be statesmen. You as good as promised when you ran for office that you would be statesmen...
...adviser, 59-year-old Nuri Pasha, who fought for the British in World War I, is one of the few Arab statesmen who will publicly say what many secretly think-that until the world has settled down a bit, Arabs had better rely on British support. Last week Nuri said it again: "If [the United Nations] proves unable to provide security, we shall have to find other means to guarantee our safety." Everyone knew that by "other means" he meant a continued alliance with the British. Nuri added that there would probably be no early revision of the 1930 Anglo...