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...last, they supported the Allies for reasons of good business rather than sentiment. Nathan Rothschild, no bosom friend of Wellington, did bid for a loan to France after Napoleon's first defeat, sent the market down by selling his own government bonds when his bid was refused. Statesmen like Metternich had, as the picture shows, agreed with Baring Brothers, London bankers, to handle some of the bonds privately for their own profit. When Rothschild sent the prices down, Baring Brothers called on the statesmen to put up the cash for their securities. When they failed...
...Rome, a parley among statesmen from Italy, Austria and Hungary prepared to get under way with a three-power treaty in sight, allying Italy against Nazi Germany in Central Europe...
...touching it is that a poet should guide us to the true light and initiate us into the ways of wisdom! When in our eternal search for the causes of war statesmen and scholars fall us, there is still nothing to fear. For Ezra Pound is still with us, ever ready in his own subtle way to show us the truths that we seek. Here indeed, is a guide worth following. He was among the first to give a meaning to meaningless words by raising them from small to large type. But his contribution is really far greater than that...
...they tend to identify what is with what ought to be. Both have studied the past so thoroughly and so well that they have come to love it and unconsciously to project it into the future. Remember that Aristotle wrote his politics as a guide to Greek City-Statesmen while tutoring Alexander who was to murder the <> he loved so deeply. Professor Holcombe is willing to offer his knowledge of practical politics to the middle class, which is capable of murdering all of the nineteenth century liberalism which he knows and loves so well...
...proposed economy bill (TIME. Jan. 15). Equally hot was Mayor LaGuardia's defense: He must balance the budget by Feb. 1 to get Federal money for subway construction, and, said he. the budget could not be balanced by an "essay" on dictatorship. At Albany the two statesmen were all coolness and suavity. Graciously the Governor invited the Mayor to spend the night in his mansion; graciously the Mayor declined. They exchanged their views at luncheon. By 3 o'clock they had arrived at a compromise and were...