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...more and more reservists were called up, statesmen, politicians, journalists and generals hauled out their big oratorical guns for what promised to be a screaming international debate. At Verdun, where 23 years ago this week the French defenders were repulsing the attacking Germans, the usually silent General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, commander-in-chief of all French armed forces, said that "respect cannot be bought with concessions." French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet spoke to fellow Radical Socialists of the "spectre of war" haunting Europe, came right out and pleaded with the U. S. to remove war fears by joining the British...
...paper in 1902, when he was eleven years old. It represented the local authorities as lunatics because of their reluctance to remove certain trees that obstructed traffic. Ever since that time he has pictured himself as a "nuisance dedicated to sanity." His definition of sanity embraces a good many statesmen and policies: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, armament races, Nonintervention, and Prime Minister Neville (Chamberlain's political "realism." Some of the personages scared by his corrosive brush have had good reason to regret that young David did not become a bishop as his mother wished, instead of becoming the world...
Fortnight ago Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov frankly expressed his doubts about the sincerity of the British Government's desire to stop Adolf Hitler on all fronts. Last week, from the lips of highly placed British statesmen themselves, he had plenty of evidence to support these doubts...
Last week, the Pope made his first public declaration concerning his peace efforts: "Toward the beginning of last month we thought it timely, after mature deliberation, to make known to some statesmen of the great European nations the anxiety the situation was causing us at that moment. . . . We received assurances of good will and of determination to maintain peace...
None of the "statesmen" was named. Neither the Anglo-French lineup, which lost its shirt last time it sat down at a conference table with Herr Hitler, nor the militant Fascist powers warmed to Papal intervention. But the Pope has evidently not given up hope for a Vatican get-together, as he conferred with British Minister to the Vatican Francis D. G. Osborne and sent messages to London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Warsaw. What he said to Minister Osborne remained a secret...