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...postulates of the Atlantic Charter are not mere phrases written on paper. We have faith in the statesmen who signed them. And in support of these statesmen are the peoples who, like our own, thirst for a better order of things, a better democracy and a better world...
While you (very properly) castigate and laugh at our rabble-rousing, gallus-snappin', education-proof, nigger-baitin' . . . Gene Talmadge, thank you for not letting the nation forget that Georgia has given to the Senate one of its most distinguished statesmen, Walter George. Don't let them forget, please, that the President tried to "purge" Walter George. And failed...
Last week other church statesmen testified to this need in moving words. Cried the Anglican Bishop of Chichester in a transatlantic broadcast: "We must have a faith equal to that of the Nazis or we shall not win." Said the new Archbishop of Canterbury in a letter to the London Times: "To many of us it seems that what is needed is not a new political device, but a new temper of mind and a new spiritual approach." John Foster Dulles and Walter Van Kirk, chairman and secretary, respectively, of the Federal Council's Commission to Study the Bases...
...Nations interests in Turkey is likely to arise if there are further Allied reverses in the Near East and if Turkey is forced to take sides-if, for example, Adolf Hitler wants a Turkish road to the East. Then the United Nations can only hope that Turkey's statesmen will bear in mind the supposed last words of their old friend and idol, Kamâl Atat...
Rushing in where more eminent scholars had feared to tread, Renner undertook to translate the Atlantic Charter and other "noble statements" by amateurs (i.e., statesmen and political thinkers)-into a map. Amateurs were astounded at the result. His geopolitical Europe was divided into nine big nations, with Axis Germany and Italy left apparently as strong as the victorious United Nations themselves...