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...ancient philosophers and statesmen first evolved the concept of orderly freedom." Professor Finley stated, and it is the hope of the Department that this plan will help to broaden the student's outlook, as well as avoid the tendency toward totalitarianism, which stems from extreme specialization in education. The Humanistic fields have an obligation to help fulfill the traditions of a liberal education and these obligations should be fulfilled...
Although an immediate unanimous diplomatic rupture with the Axis had been thwarted by Chilean-Argentine opposition. Statesman Welles and such other notable statesmen as Brazil's President Getulio Vargas and Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla and Uruguay's Alberto Guanú had given new meaning to the term Americanism. They had preserved the moral unity of the 21 Nations, driven Axis diplomats from 19 of them, and throttled Axis trade. With resolutions calling for economic mobilization and the unification of hemisphere defenses, they had begun the task of making America economically...
Tired, peevish, none of them feeling like accomplished diplomats, much less like statesmen, the delegates Monday night straggled part way up Corcovado peak to an official diplomatic reception in President Vargas' marble Guahabara Palace. They kissed the hand of Senhora Vargas, moved through tapestried halls to a garden buffet table and outdoor cocktail bars. By the time Rio's municipal ballet had flitted on & off an outdoor stage the tropic night had begun to work its magic...
Editor Herzberg's insulters extend in time from Job to Dorothy Parker, are grouped under such headings as Kings and Presidents, Scarified Statesmen; Scorched Politicos; Spite and Wit Among the Great; Whistlerisms; Sarcasm by Mail, Wire, and Cable. Some of the best...
...statesmen, the spokesmen, the politicians, the leaders, could speak for unity. They did so. Herbert Hoover: "American soil has been treacherously attacked by Japan. We must fight with everything we have...