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Thus the League Council is accurately informed what will happen should they give the Saar now to Germany. To withhold it, many Geneva statesmen feared, would touch off a Nazi invasion to seize the Saar. Even the supremely legal mind of Sir John Simon was not attracted, as it normally would have been, by the Treaty of Versailles' proviso that the Saar may be split or diced up into as many parts as the Council pleases, each part being given a different status, corresponding to the local vote. From a legal standpoint the League seemed duty-bound to give...
Congratulations to TIME for the opportunity to see, in some measure face to face, a few of the new Governors [TIME, Dec. 31]. After studying these faces of statesmen and patriots one feels exalted and draws therefrom renewed confidence in American constituencies. This is especially true in the case of the incoming Governor of Maryland...
...square off these matters took 90 minutes. At that point the two statesmen had achieved much, plenty to warrant the "high spirits" in which they were observed to sit down to lunch in Palazzo Quirinale with massive Queen Elena between them and minute King Vittorio Emanuele on the Frenchman's left...
Because the Swiss for a long time have been professional neutrals, innkeepers, paid hosts to congresses of tourists, invalids and impotent statesmen, a literary tradition has sprung up that they are a race of small-minded, closefisted, petty burghers, slightly comic but mostly dull." In Via Mala Swiss Author John Knittel goes a long way toward exploding this commercialized tradition, shows that the Swiss, like other people, are human, passionate, beleaguered by all the human vices and virtues. A humane melodrama. Via Mala is written on the socially dangerous and apparently un-Swiss-like theme that...
Such deflationary measures did not help the private business of Francqui and Gutt but, as public-spirited statesmen, they had their reward when the belga bulged above the dollar on foreign exchange...