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This struck British statesmen as amateurish, fantastic, dangerous. When the Prime Minister rose in the House of Commons he spoke with an air of firmness which fired Associated Press to fire Manhattan's World-Telegram to headline eight columns wide: "BRITAIN WARNS GERMANY-WILL MEET FORCE WITH FORCE." It was the Prime Minister's character and reputation, rather than his words, which gave this impression for Neville Chamberlain actually said: "The hard fact is that nothing could have arrested this action by Germany unless we and others with us had been prepared to use force to prevent...
Snip, Snip. The terrible crises which have been frequent in the lesser European countries since the War have bred statesmen with tough nerves. On the day Austria was being invaded, out to an orchard went Austrian Nazi Minister of Interior Dr. Seyss-Inquart, incipient Chancellor...
This attitude annoys scientists. Science, say they, is doing all right; the fault lies with statesmen, teachers, economists, philosophers, writers who have not caught up to science. On behalf of these irate scientists Stuart Chase spoke out in The Tyranny of Words (TIME, Jan. 24), blamed the world's ills on the fact that people live by nonscientific words and principles...
...balance of power is emerging; in the Far East, a new nation is building an empire; and in Austria, Hitler is beginning to realize his long sought-after union of the German peoples. In Switzerland, the placid waters of Lake Geneva lap in the ears of the few remaining statesmen who cling to the ideal of collective security, and in the rest of the world prophets of despair are again preparing funeral services for the League of Nations. Here in America, even while mid-western senators are raising the familiar cry, "We are isolated," legislative machinery to produce more money...
What is the role of Japan in the world of tomorrow? Can the nation which seems destined to rule an empire in the East be ignored by western statesmen? What of Spain? Will she ever regain her position as a power in Europe? And if so, where will her support be placed? What of America? What of the colossus of the West, the nation still thinking in terms of nineteenth century isolation, still shrinking from the cold, harsh realities of world politics...