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...Japanese statesmen arose in the Tokyo Diet last week to insist that nothing would change that course. If the U. S. implemented the treatyless situation with an embargo, Japan would not sit there and take it. She would abrogate the Nine-Power Treaty (already a dead letter); or stop being the U. S.'s third best customer; or throw U. S. citizens out of China; or fight...
...correct and influential scientist (his interview in Nature mag June 1931 p 354 brot about Bartlett rescue expedition to Greenland) but he is one of our best stylists as writer and speaker, said Worcester Gazette re his long address opening famous Clark University Oriental Conference of statesmen and sinologues. Without style no writer can reach fame and indeed no statesman reach wisdom: for imagination and extemporaneous ability enter essentially here. Hence the disastrous falldown in policies since Apl 15, 1911 when Thomsin first presented his plan in "Nouvelle Revue Paris" and in his book "The Chinese" London 1910. His biog...
Thus the four Balkan statesmen who sat down alone in the Council Chambers of Yugoslavia's Foreign Office and talked together without even a stenographer present to take down their thoughts (and possibly to let them leak out later) suddenly became Europe's biggest news...
Rumania continued last week to occupy the hottest neutral spot in Europe as Germany and the Allies continued to high-pressure her over oil. A Rumanian statesman once said, "Better give them oil than blood." But by last week Rumanian statesmen almost wished Rumania had no oil. It was beginning to smell of blood...
...four little Eleanor was banned from Warwick Square for kicking in the belly a gardener who tried to prevent her wrecking a flower bed. Her father, who told her macabre fairy stories and took her to prize fights, encouraged her "to be cheeky before solemn statesmen," allowed her to bounce up & down on the lord chancellor's woolsack. But "if we were naughty," says Lady Eleanor of herself and friends, "we were certainly never nasty...