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...Hoover warmed to his task and, month ago, pushed on up into Austria to confer with chunky President Wilhelm Miklas. To cheering Viennese engineering students he proclaimed "Statesmen seek peace through laws and conferences, sometimes forgetting that engineers can give them the things that make peace." Nine days later, with Guest Hoover then in Poland, Austrian Host Miklas lost his job and German troops took possession of Austria...
...Philip Deu: Administrator, published in 1912 about the time he made Wilson's acquaintance. It proposed many governmental reforms, which helped cement their friendship. Not reform but international diplomacy was their most binding tie. From 1914 on House commuted to Europe as Wilson's private emissary to statesmen and kings, trying first to prevent the World War, then to bring peace. In 1916 he was consulting strategist of the he-kept-us-out-of-war campaign in which Wilson was reelected, again a diplomat during the War and early League of Nations days, was estranged from Wilson...
...time for capital to recognize labor's right to live and participate in the increased efficiency of industry and the bounties of our national resources. It is time for labor to recognize the right of capital to have a reasonable return upon its investment. It is time for statesmen to recognize their nation's peril and to decide to cooperate with labor and industry. . . . Labor is willing to co-operate-now. Let the leaders of the nation's business step forward. Let the statesmen of the nation do the same. Let the council of reason and mutual...
...been honored in Europe by the governments of 15 nations: Britain, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland, the Baltic States, Finland and the Scandinavian countries. ''There is more combustible material about than in 1914,'' said he in London last week, "but statesmen are more generally alive to the dangers than in 1914. None of the principal nations will be ready with their war preparations for two or three years. Most statesmen and soldiers recognize that nobody wins in a great modern war. There is a general realization everywhere, I think, that civilization as we know...
More aggressive, wittier and compact is 42-year-old Lancelot Hogben (Mathematics for the Million), an English biologist who calls himself a "scientific humanist" and is a kind of English version of iconoclastic Thorstein Veblen. Writers and statesmen he attacks for their ignorance of science, scientists for their ignorance of social matters. In addition he attacks Marxists, liberals, classical scholarship, "sentimental internationalists," theology, economists, and educators who permit children to study what they like rather than what is good for them (science). On the constructive side, he advocates biotechnology as a way to make nations self-sufficient, thermodynamics...