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Last week Balkan statesmen were again getting the call from the Nazis, and Locomotive Führer went to see Nazidom's Führer. The conference took place secretly in Berlin. Afterwards only terse communiqués took note of the visit, and all the world took it for granted that Bulgaria would soon join the scramble for the Axis bandwagon. But a whole week passed by, and Bulgaria did not sign. Boris had weighed the odds and come to a pretty solution-for the time being...
Vice Admiral Yoshijiro Hamada: "America's participation in the European war will automatically involve Japan. . . . Statesmen will try to prevent such a calamity, but the circumstances are beyond their control. There can be no settlement until Japan and America have a showdown...
...Signature)" "Don't," the instructions added, "write between the lines." But if letters could not cross the frontier, statesmen could and did. Fortnight ago, first dark little Vice Premier Pierre Laval, then doddering Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, crossed to Paris to negotiate with Hitler. Last week, Laval, adding Paul Ba'udouin's portfolio of Foreign Affairs to those he already held, made a second trip to Paris, talked long with German civilian and military authorities...
Morize spent last year as the head of the French Bureau of North American Propaganda after he was stranded in Paris at the outbreak of hostilities. His bureau translated articles from French periodicals and speeches by French statesmen in order to send them to this country...
...obvious. ... I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking. . . . But there never has been superadded to these vices of mine the withering, embalming vice of consistency. . . . Let me quote Emerson: 'A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen...