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Yesterday at the eleventh hour was the nineteenth anniversary of the end of the war to end wars. From the viewpoint of diplomats and statesmen, it is difficult to celebrate that "ending" with real conviction when the world is at the moment facing at least two real wars, in Spain and in China, coupled with tense situations in the Mediterranean, in eastern Europe, and latest of all, in Brazil. The great masses of the peoples of the world are likewise disturbed, for the clouds of imperialism and aggrandizement seem at times ready to plunge them into another cataclysm...
Winston Churchill's Great Contemporaries is a collection of 21 essays, product of eight years of scattered writings, on various figures of importance in recent European political history, by England's irrepressible bad boy of politics. He is soundest in his estimates of older statesmen and most informative in his reminiscences of personal contacts with World War generals. But as Author Churchill approaches the present his passionate conservatism leads him increasingly astray from accepted opinion. He defends as a "forlorn" patriot the opèra bouffe Boris Savinkov (prerevolutionary Russian spy who worked both for the Tsarist police...
When portly President the Aga Khan of the Assembly of the League of Nations wound up its session by a recess last week and statesmen started home, Geneva correspondents agreed that "only one of the 52 principal delegates left Geneva better known and better appreciated than when he arrived, Vilhelms Munters...
...Unequal Treatment," In Mr. Eden's desire to spite Il Duce, the statesmen at Nyon last fortnight and at Geneva last week, invited Italy to undertake an anti-pirate patrol only in the Tyrrhenian Sea immediately adjoining Italy, while Britain and France are to patrol the Mediterranean proper. This joker invitation said in effect: "As you are the Pirate, we intend to destroy your pirate ships everywhere except in your back yard, and we invite you to destroy them there!" This seemed in London and Paris to be just about diplomacy's best joke of the year...
...last week by a fresh severe fall of the franc. With the Paris Exposition drawing to its close, wiseacres expected an end to the "political truce" France has observed all summer for the benefit of tourists, a sharp struggle between Left and Right with wide repercussions for which European statesmen last week were preparing as best they could...