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...generation after generation statesmen and monarchs have mounted the grand curving stair of Londonderry House to pompous festivities in the historic rooms above. The present 7th Marquess of Londonderry is also Viscount Castlereagh. Prominently in Londonderry House hangs a portrait of his ancestor of whom Thomas Moore riddled venomously...
Said M. Doumergue last week in a broadcast to Frenchmen a la Roosevelt: "The Constitution must be revised to avert a dictatorship, a foreign invasion and another war. The situation in Europe is such that instability of our Government might prove fatal. Many able statesmen sit in our Senate and Chamber but they are scattered among the numerous groups which make Parliament look like a kaleidoscope. They pass their time fighting among themselves to achieve a power [as Premier] which it is impossible for them to use well or usefully when they have obtained it. Is not all this...
Latest of European statesmen to ape President Roosevelt's microphone manner is Premier Leon Kozlowski of Poland. His "Moi przyjaciele. . . ."is now almost as familiar and effective as the U. S. President's "My friends. . . ." Last week he cuddled up to his microphone and told the Polish people about their budget and their armaments...
...believes the Allies won the War. He still believes in "victory." His defense of his own conduct as War Prime Minister of England is detailed but lucid; he writes trenchantly, aggressively, persuasively, in thoughts of one syllable. His book, when completed, will fit more neatly than most into the statesmen's monument to the Unknown Soldier...
Next day, as kings and statesmen left Belgrade by train and as General Goring piloted his own trimotored plane back to Berlin, King Peter vanished into the guarded precincts of the Jugoslav Court and what he did there would have remained unknown had not the sister-in-law of one of his mother's ladies-in-waiting blabbed. According to Mrs. Slavko Gruitch (née Mabel Dunlop of Clarksburg, W. Va.), the 11-year-old King broke the news of Alexander's death to his brothers Prince Tomislav, 7, and Prince Andreja, 5, who had been kept...