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Andrew Kotalik, who once worked as a boilermaker for the Lackawanna Railroad, summed up his recent life in words that contracted the world's dimensions more strikingly than air-travel statistics and which made peace terms seem more real than all the speeches of statesmen: "From de war we ain't had enough. From de Joimans we ain't had enough. Den dem bandit fellers come and dey boint down de houses' and boint my horse and four sheepses. Excuse my English, but can't you folks do something for us folks...
Today we mark the anniversary of the death of the man whose humanity was the greatest moral inspiration to the peoples and statesmen of the world. When men in these days attempt to solve the problems, within or between nations, that have risen out of the past war, they are judged by the standards Franklin Delano Roosevelt set for himself and his associates. He was the proof in our time that noble ideals need not be ground under in the grim, practical struggle for life...
...President of Costa Rica has been a fascist, nor could any Chief Executive of my country ever sympathize with the totalitarian nations, because every one of Costa Rica's statesmen is educated in the school of traditional Costa Rican democracy...
After weeks of considering scientists, soldiers and statesmen for the important post, the President nominated aged (75) Bernard Mannes Baruch to be the U.S. representative on the United Nations Atomic Energy Control Commission...
...Formerly, statesmen tried for balance of power to keep peace among nations; now some statesmen have swung to the theory that monopolies of power may be solutions to world peace. ... It would certainly be a mighty advance if human beings could regard other human beings, not as pawns in a game, but as individuals with sacred rights to life and liberty...