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...invented committees to steer them. It was thus the fate of the Hull Pillars this week to be steered back to the steering committee. The Secretary of State, who is never downhearted or discouraged, commenced a lobbying campaign to nurse his brain children into health & strength while other statesmen give birth to theirs. Not wicked but as good as most mothers, the Conference statesmen pursued their Destiny...
Lucky winner gets $40,000 from the Nobel Peace Prize. The President of the Conference, Argentine Foreign Minister Carlos Saavedra Lamas, got his just before the statesmen reached Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 7). This week Adolf Hitler held still locked up in a Berlin sanatorium Nobel Peace Prizeman Carl von Ossietzky. Although the Prize Prisoner protested that his health is quite good enough for him to go to Norway and receive the $40,000 which the Nobel Committee wants to give him as a slap at Dictatorship (TIME, Dec. 7), Nazi newsorgans stated firmly that Nazi doctors do not think...
...leadership of newspapers has proved at times more potent than that of politicians themselves; at other times, as in the past election, completely futile. Always, however, it has vast potentialities, particularly for developing a new profession with a sound code of ethics, for breeding a new race of statesmen with vision...
Usually London's great financial houses know within a few hours what is brewing in such circumstances. Last week Britain's statesmen made supreme efforts to keep their secret, but United Press, after three days of careful source-tapping and cross-checking cabled: "It is understood that Mr. Baldwin's meeting with Mr. Attlee established a common front of the Conservative and Labor parties on their attitude toward the friendship between the King and Mrs. Simpson, and left no doubt that the friendship had precipitated one of the most serious constitutional crises of modern times...
...Christian Premier anticipates that rivers of Chinese blood will remain unshed at an expense in silver dollars measurably less than what it would cost China to buy the weapons she requires direct from the rapacious West. In Nanking, placing the tips of their fingers calmly together, Chinese statesmen opined to fascinated white correspondents that it would surely be the part of wisdom for European nations, now so petulantly drifting into another War and with Munitions Broker Sir Basil Zaharoff dead, to buy each other off rather than blunder into the much greater expense of fighting...