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Visiting London this spring, Bob Menzies found himself the most popular of Empire statesmen. Though in Australia he is regarded as a brilliant representative of Big Business, the British found him the perfect type of forthright, homespun Colonial. He became a favorite of Winston Churchill, was talked up in the press as War Cabinet timber...
Japanese justice usually takes into account the "patriotism" of political assassins. In Tokyo's Criminal Court last week nine Japanese were convicted of trying in 1939 to dynamite some "conservative statesmen" suspected of pro-British sentiments. Six got suspended sentences. The severest sentence handed down was 30 months in jail. The court did not embarrass the criminals by naming their intended victims...
...full of haste last week. He wanted to crush the Russians at once. If he did not, if the war dragged into the winter, he might no longer be the chooser of campaigns. He was an old hand at breaking promises, but there was one promise-made, not to statesmen of the so-called plutocracies, but to his own people-that he did not want to break, for his power could break with it. He made it on the last day of 1940: "The year 1941 will bring consummation of the greatest victory in our history...
Public assassinations of statesmen and kings (probably with the connivance of the police); weird disappearances; bloody purges; sudden emergence of strange characters from underground struggles in Europe's political depths; treason in the highest places; deserters running from all sides to all camps - in the ten years before World War II these curiosa were not merely foretastes of war and the collapse of nations. They were evidence to one East Prussian farmer that "an age has come to its end," because the moral sanctions by which until then men had lived had lost all meaning...
Inasmuch as innumerable Peruvians and Ecuadorians never got anywhere near settling this dispute, American statesmen last week wisely made no attempt to settle it. But they were interested in nipping the incipient war which had flared along the frontier (TIME, July...