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...strong, non-parliamentary states-Russia and Germany-and is unable to retain her democratic forms. We must adopt a new Constitution, based solely on the President, excluding the party system." Thus read a momentous communique released last week by the "Pilsudski. Colonels," the tight little clique of soldier-statesmen who have ruled Poland for years under the aegis of walrus-mustached Marshal Josef Pilsudski whose whimsy is that he will not be President. For more than two years the Pilsudski Colonels have been drafting Poland's new Constitution, recognizing that Marshal Pilsudski cannot live forever, that Poland cannot always...
...been "delayed by illness." When the chuckling Communists let him go at last, he rushed to the marble banquet hall red-faced and spluttering. Dealing the 200 place cards with the speed and accuracy of a croupier at baccarat, Chef de Protocole Yeregui soon had the fuming, famished statesmen safely seated...
Such is the nature of statesmen that without the seating list they could not eat. President Terra is the Dictator of Uruguay in affairs of state but he dared not try to seat his guests for fear of making a faux pas. Secretary Hull, though he had urged "informality" and harped on President Roosevelt's "good-neighbor policy" ever since the Conference opened, did not rise to this emergency with any such suggestion as "Why don't we all just sit down...
Since the first traders sailed the Nile it has been a law as certain as gravity that Art follows Business. European statesmen have made effort after effort to prevent their great paintings from drifting to the U. S. But foreign laws have not been enough to keep the U. S. from becoming more & more the art treasure house of the world. Because great collections of Old Masters, instead of being concentrated exclusively in metropolitan galleries, are spread among smaller cities, few U. S. citizens fully appreciate the sum total of their country's artistic riches. Last week Kansas City...
Nearly everyone who won the War has now been heard from. The mysterious and importunate friend who always urges statesmen to write their memoirs has finally prevailed on David Lloyd George. His first two fat volumes (918 pp.), telling his side of the story through 1916, are written with that shrewd candor and political zest that are as much his hall-mark as his bright eyes, flowing mane and bourgeois mustache. Historians should find these volumes of a challenging usefulness; literary critics will rate them as above the average for a non-professional writer; plain readers, who will find them...