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...Politics" is happily free from any barren dialectic exercises undertaken for their own sake and from any wanton quoting of the Marxist fathers and saints. It is one of the outstanding virtues of the book that it proves its points not by citing the prophets but by allowing capitalists, statesmen, and theorists to damn themselves out of their own mouths. If it had no other value this book would still be justified by the inane, blind and cruel remarks it gathers together from the speeches and writings of the contemporary great...
...third and greatest negative established at Buenos Aires is that European statesmen are now joined by American statesmen in unanimous failure to discover any definition of what constitutes "aggression." Abortive also were attempts to solve the Chaco boundary dispute between Bolivia & Paraguay. All Christmas Day and right up to the time Secretary of State Hull's steamer sailed for New York, the would-be peacemakers were still haggling. They broke off to bid him goodby...
According to TIME, Nov. 16, "editors and statesmen of every capital in the world . . . responded to news of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide re-election with an international ovation for the winner...
...statesmen to talk about peace is good, but last week many people in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Rumania were inclined to think, mistakenly perhaps, that their statesmen were doing something better...
Neither new King George VI nor any member of the Royal Family sat with Prince Edward during the abdication broadcast from Windsor Castle (see p. 15). His Majesty had become King and Emperor eight hours previously, and immediately dropped into a quiet routine of receiving British home & Dominion statesmen at his home, No. 145 Piccadilly. As Duke of York he aroused only the slightest public interest, but British aristocrats said with particular satisfaction of the Duchess of York, "She is one of us," and a popular knowledge that the late King George V was most fond of their little daughter...