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...known to have busied themselves in recent weeks over the draft text of a virtual military alliance with Russia to keep Germany in check. Since assassination was the fate of French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, who first pressed the idea of this "sanitary alliance," the Swiss warning caused Geneva statesmen to surround themselves this week as never before with bodyguards...
Never a crusader, the Times became the greatest newspaper in the U. S. by the simple but difficult procedure of giving more news than any other. It won the first Pulitzer Prize in 1918 for publishing many official War documents and statesmen's speeches in full. Often it was dull, but never incomplete. It shunned comic strips, and breezy feature stories but was the first newspaper in the U. S. to offer rotogravure...
...present opportunity at Stresa, probably Europe's long chance for peace, is allowed to lapse through the maddening dalliance of British statesmen, Great Britain must assume moral responsibility for the next great war. It is a responsibility which a confused world shifted from her to Germany in 1918. The spectacle of Hitler waving at Stalin with an olive branch in his hand and a machine-gun up his sleeve, while Great Britain politely looks the other way, is proving to be no sedative for a Europe suffering from its worst case of jitters since...
...French and Italians, if he could. Italy's Vice Foreign Minister Fulvio Suvitch was sent up from Rome to eat luncheon with Capt. Eden at the ornate French Foreign Office. Afterward a formal pretense of Anglo-Franco-Italian solidarity was made, but as one of the Latin statesmen said: "We have decided to let Sir John pull chestnuts out of Herr Hitler's fire, if he can. Later we will see whether or not we like the chestnuts. We will never consent to a German Army of the size that has been proposed by Hitler...
...reward to Mr. Stephens was a juicy plum, for party regularity. For 22 years Mr. Stephens served the Democratic Party in Congress, twelve of them in the Senate where he succeeded the greatest of Mississippi's statesmen, the late John Sharp Williams. No one ever accused Mr. Stephens of being a counterpart of Williams, but he was well liked by his colleagues. Last year he ran into hard luck...