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...light that illumined them in 1932 or '33. The Japanese betrayal of the Kellogg-Brian compact began the downhill course. Following the Manchurian invasion, Secretary Stimson foresaw repetition of the same form of lawlessness, and American policy began to take shape. By protest and testimonial, American, and later, allied statesmen have been excoriating totalitarian aggression ever since. The rise of Hitler brought warnings from Washington, the invasion of Ethiopia drew pleas for "resumption of international responsibility." As the Rhineland, Austria, Sudeten, and Czechoslovakia fell in simple order, the aggrandizement of Hitler drew outraged warnings from Washington...
...Russia . . . prepared her world struggle in the name of socialist states, with the support of capitalist countries, against . . . socialist Germany. >"Whatever pretext our enemies used . . . the fundamental cause was always the same: hatred against a strong German Reich . . . and their universal capitalist interests in war as such. ... All their statesmen are at the same time holders of shares of the armament industries. . . . The blood of their paid mercenaries, of even their own soldiers, produces their dividends...
...Some historians and most citizens today know him only as a bullheaded, ill-tempered drunkard who narrowly escaped impeachment by a righteous Congress. But some biographers consider him a great man, ranking just ahead of Abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens and just behind Abraham Lincoln as one of the most influential statesmen of his time. The film, which takes this view, presents it eloquently...
...these last three years." The reason: he has been "building a concrete and comprehensive system-a Treaty of Peace-for the coming world settlement." Without describing the system, the bridge player characterized.it as "a blueprint that works, not dreams," declared that it had been endorsed by "hundreds of professors, statesmen and specialists...
...rest of the book is of dubious merit, particularly when presented against the power and brilliance of her main essay. But that main essay can be refuted by statesmen in only one way-by producing a better world in some other...