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Premier Kantaro Suzuki held another emergency meeting with his Cabinet, conferred with Japan's elder statesmen, ex-Premiers Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, Admiral Keisuke Okada, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Koki Hirota, Generals Hideki Tojo and Kuniaki Koiso. He called on the Emperor Hirohito, bowed reverentially, and reported, according to Radio Tokyo, on a "general jurisdictional matter...
High Churchman Wand will bring to his new job both scholarship and a firsthand knowledge of a clergyman's daily grind. London will also have a Bishop who speaks his mind. Sample: "If we wish to reform the nation, we must begin at the top with statesmen and politicians. I would like to see us governed by a government truly democratic . . . there should be an end to this outside government where the Prime Minister and his ministers go to Parliament with their minds already made up for them by outside influences...
Last fortnight the New York Times's C. L. Sulzberger wrote a piece to the effect that Soviet Russian statesmen act very much like their merely Russian predecessors. For illustration, he told of a prank played by William C. Bullitt when he was U.S. Ambassador to Moscow (1933-36). In the Embassy files, Bullitt found copies of the reports of Neill S. Brown, U.S. Minister to St. Petersburg nearly a century ago (1850-53). Bullitt changed a few names and details, sent the reports back as his own. The State Department took them for what they were: penetrating comments...
...months of Big Three relations attending the European war's end. As the cohesive element-a common, dangerous enemy-dwindled away, relations obviously worsened. Peace disclosed deep conflicts of purpose and method which in future decades would try the skill of diplomats and the wisdom of statesmen. But many of the last two months' "issues" were mere pinpricks and needle jabs, magnified to dagger thrusts by the tension of the times. Already some of them looked pretty silly...
Equitable sold policies to employes of some 40 U.S. agencies, including such definitely bad risks as the Offices of Strategic Services and War Information, which often send their men prowling under enemy guns; such medium individual risks as Harry L. Hopkins, Edward R. Stettinius, and other air-traveling statesmen and Congressmen. By last week Equitable had sold some $50,000,000 worth of such insurance, and as the program neared its second anniversary, actuaries had to whistle over some amazing actuarial facts...