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...opener. Those statesmen who believed that the New Spain would soon forsake its Rome-Berlin allies and go over to Britain and France had a rude shock, moreover, in the diplomatic tribulations of Marshal Philippe Petain at San Sebastian and Burgos. The 81-year-old Marshal was picked as French Ambassador to Spain because it was thought he would be able to talk to El Caudillo as one military man to another. El Caudillo did not see it that...
...Year's Day 1929, a spectator from any place but Mars might have seen, beneath the hysteria and hangover of the boom years, a perspective of peace ahead. The ribbons of trenches that crisscrossed Europe had been filled in, the post-War statesmen of revenge were out of office, the Soviet Union had turned from its program of international revolution to its program of internal development under the Five-Year Plan. U. S. tourist spending in Europe jumped over 350% between 1920 and 1928, building went on as rapidly as in any period of history...
...years of Depression, were compelled to take a new interest in foreign news. Strange news it was at first, confused, murky, seething, a sequence of brutal events, of medieval vengeance wreaked with modern weapons, news of German book-burnings, of anti-Semitic outbreaks, of a bloody purge, news of statesmen who seemed only masters of vituperation and violence. What could be expected from a country whose leaders believed, in Propaganda Minister Goebbels' words, that their mission was "to unchain volcanic passions, to cause outbreaks of fury, to set masses of men on the march, to organize hate and suspicion...
...consisted of having almost no policy. Secretary Stimson, rigid legalist that he is, in fact had a policy. When Japan in 1931 revived undeclared war as an international blackjack, he proposed to resist aggressors by all peaceful means. But in a war-shy, depression-hit world, Britain's statesmen would not back him up. He could do little more in public than denounce treaty-smashers as pungently as diplomatic usage permitted. Before leaving office he visited Franklin Roosevelt at Hyde Park, indelibly impressed him. In the past six years, Colonel Stimson and Cordell Hull have become great cronies behind...
Revision was the treatment recommended by Elder Statesman Stimson. He urged the Senators to make the President identify "aggressors," then punish them by embargoes and other economic sanctions. British statesmen of today, well knowing their nation is not soon likely to seem "aggressive" in U. S. eyes, and with trouble much nearer home than Manchuria, rejoiced to read these consistent Stimsonisms, which were delivered with more force and sparkle than Colonel Stimson exhibited while in office...