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Government has not always solved these problems, or even attacked them wisely. There are indications that this time, at last, it may succeed. For our statesmen, with a commendable humility which TIME does not share, now recognize the shortcomings of their own education and are calling on the men of science for help. It is the most hopeful sign of our times that the men of science and good will are being given a voice in international affairs...
...correspondents, said Mencken, were "a sorry lot, either typewriter-statesmen turning out dope stuff drearily dreamed up. or sentimental human-interest scribblers turning out maudlin stuff about the common soldier, easy to get by the censors. Ernie Pyle was a good example. He did well what he set out to do, but that couldn't be called factual reporting...
Some day UNO may become the vital center of world affairs. Statesmen may struggle to fill its posts. But last week it was in the position of the weak U.S. Supreme Court of 1800, when John Jay turned down the chief justiceship because the court lacked "energy, weight and dignity. . . ." Not only in the great, but even in the smaller countries leaders were bowing away from UNO's $20,000 a year (tax free) job as Secretary-General...
...been put, widely and well, by Mackenzie King. He was not a salesman's idea of a salesman, but he was well fitted for this job of worldwide public relations. He had known both Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt as young men, and he moved with ease among the statesmen of the world. And, though he was not a politician's idea of a politician, he had done an even better job of governing his country. He had taken a nation of two cultures, a land often torn by racial strife, and held it together, for its own good...
...true that I ... wanted the war in 1939. It was . . . provoked entirely by those international statesmen who were either of Jewish origin or who worked in Jewish interests. . . . Out of the ruins of our cities . . . hatred will arise and be constantly renewed...