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...wonder that Hitler today is a far different creature from the man who deferentially greeted President von Hindenburg in January 1933 when the old Field Marshal reluctantly accepted him as Chancellor. Since then he has taken the measure of most of Europe's statesmen including Britain's own Prime Minister Chamberlain. His once co-equal ally, Mussolini, is now only his stooge...
...Victory. Many statesmen had played their parts in Belgrade's coup d'etat. Winston Churchill had done much by risking an expeditionary force in Greece while Yugoslavia wavered. "Early this morning Yugoslavia found her soul," said Winston Churchill fervently. The U. S. had also played a part, by passing the Lend-Lease Act and promising aid to Britain's allies, and President Roosevelt made this promise stick in a message of congratulation to King Peter. Russia had helped, by pledging neutrality to Turkey if Turkey should be attacked, thereby suggesting to Turkey the advisability of a treaty...
...TIME, I noticed a letter which you may think it worth-while to recall to your readers. It is from W. E. Hamilton, of Evanston, Ill. . . His words regarding Churchill are certainly prophetic. For he says: ". . . Winston Churchill is a political giant among giants, one of the several world statesmen, upon whose shoulders might fall the task of saving not only their own democracy, but ours too." And the date of the issue is Aug. 28, 1939-the week before the outbreak of war and when Churchill was politically still out in the wilderness...
...hair turned a shade greyer on the heads of many elder statesmen when ex-Fellow Traveler MacLeish was appointed Librarian of Congress. A Time to Speak, a collection of MacLeish prose of the past decade, should reassure all but the most skittish. Though the original journalistic impact of some of the pieces has been softened by time, most of them show that even in the days of his most furious fellow-traveling Poet MacLeish was chiefly interested in asserting the importance of the poet's role in a world of social change...
Last week the Senate tried its level best to act like a body of Statesmen. Debate on the Lend-Lease Bill, H.R. 1776, opened on a plane so high that many Senators felt a little difficulty in breathing. Crowded galleries, hoping for an old-fashioned quick-&-dirty scrap, with plenty of rabbit punches and hitting in the clinches, were disappointed. The Senate wrapped the toga of dignity and dullness about its collective paunch, and gamely strove for classic words...