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...merits of the nominees were another matter. Along with Chief Justice Hughes, Mr. Stimson ranks as a leading contender among U. S. Elder Statesmen: a Yaleman, Skull and Bonester, Harvard lawyer, understudy of the late, great Elihu Root, he had not only had a lucrative law practice but had found time to be a colonel of artillery in World War I. Although he did not love the President's domestic issues, he approved his foreign policy. became a croquet-playing crony of Secretary Hull. But at his age, 72, it was dubious whether he had the stamina and vigor...
...Tokyo press labored mightily to raise Puppet Wang in Japanese esteem. Unlike most other peoples, the Japanese like their statesmen boozy. Several Japanese Premiers have been notoriously copious tosspots. It was therefore a great build-up of Chinese Puppet Wang in the eyes of Japanese when the Tokyo Hochi Shimbun (News) quoted Director Yakichiro Suma of the Japanese Foreign Office Information Service apropos his personal acquaintance with Wang Ching-wei some dozen years ago in Peiping...
...faces of the young; on the fagend of the industrial revolution, a people physically rated, even by their own experts, as a third-class nation; on moral apathy and deafness to change of the middle and upper classes; on the leaders of England ("The profoundest wish of English statesmen of our time was to elude the responsibility of statesmanship"). "Looking ahead, one saw the face of nightmare; looking back, one saw the faces of ghosts...
...incident of first-rate national meaning. . . . Sometimes plays are more potent than statesmen. . . . This play, depicting the tragedy of Finland, seemed to me a rank, inflammatory job, pleading for intervention, sneering at our reluctance to go in. America, still hesitant to plunge into the burning ruins of Europe, was compared to Pontius Pilate, callous and cowardly, evading a responsibility. ... It played to capacity audiences, which are traditionally undemonstrative here [Washington], and sent them away moist-eyed. Most . . . were swept off their feet...
...government, Adams does not minimize Britain's misery at home in the Tory reaction which for 40 years after the French revolution delayed reform. But when reform came it was not through violent revolution, as elsewhere in Europe, but through the Parliamentary process and the talents of English statesmen. Adams' story includes many instances of the way in which those talents opened up modern civilization; e.g., Sir Robert Peel's inauguration of the police force, Sir Rowland Hill's invention of postage stamps...