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With small appetite for luncheon, the most puzzled statesmen in Europe gathered in the dining room of Geneva's Hotel Carlton Park last Monday noon. In theory they were there to attend the League of Nations Council, discuss 19 different subjects. Actually they were there to try to do something about the continuance of Sanctions against Italy, now that Benito Mussolini had thrust the conquest and annexa tion of Ethiopia under their noses as an accomplished fact...
...Association, toyed with the notion of lending psychiatry to statecraft when he asked: "In the sphere of politics and statesmanship, is it possible to make the present available knowledge of human nature of any practical effect? ... As a beginning one might arrange a special consultation service for legislators and statesmen, where they could get some insight into the problems of their own personality as an introduction to a proper understanding of their fellows...
...Verdun, this ghastly irregularity spreads panic and consternation through the high command, has repercussions far outside the war zone on Press, Church and Business. However, unlike Playwright Chlumberg, who tried to fix original responsibility for the conflict, Playwright Shaw never penetrates as high as the nation's statesmen, as deep as the nation's populace. He is willing to concentrate his indignation on the Generals who run the war in such a way that men get killed. What young Mr. Shaw really hates is not War but Death...
...younger men who combine to a gratifying extent the qualities of both scholar and teacher. As time passes, these men will themselves constitute the group the department at present lacks; meanwhile their comparative youth ensures close contact and sympathy between faculty and students. Were the lack of 'elder statesmen' the only ground for criticizing the department, Harvard might feel fairly satisfied with is instruction in government...
Such were last week's manifestations of the continuing crisis between Japan and Russia. Meanwhile Japanese statesmen had something even more serious to worry about. News leaked out that the Soviet Government had just concluded a secret treaty with China's Nanking Government, promising mutual assistance in case either country should be attacked by Japan...