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...Rome and in London statesmen of the West last week began jockeying toward that boycott of Japan for which, in their eyes, President Roosevelt gave the cue when he recognized Nippon's most implacable foe, the Soviet Union...
Since most Chinese statesmen are fluent in English, Mr. Chen seldom has to use his halting Chinese, lashes out with a searing, corrosive power of invective which has made him a force in China ever since he was appointed legal adviser to the original Canton Government of the late, great Dr. Sun. Last year Mr. Chen quarreled with Conqueror Chiang and since then with all the spleen in his bitter soul he has been out to smash the Generalissimo whom he calls "medievally minded," "politically dishonest," "the betrayer of China to Japan" and "the Dictator without a soul who would...
...like Mr. Chen whose prestige is their mandate. Nanking and Peiping politicos stand for conservatism in the Kuomintang, while those in Fukien and Canton stand for a radicalism nearly if not quite Communist. What Fukien's defiance and Canton's demands really meant was that South Chinese statesmen are launching a new onslaught to smash what they call the Nanking "Dynasty of Soong," the real power behind the Nanking Government...
Taking their name from the element attacked in the President's Savannah speech, the '"Tories"' organized in Manhattan "to raise the drooping head of the American eagle on the dollar bill, to foster a 'back-to-the-college' movement for our statesmen...
When English statesmen retire they often retire into their studies to taper off an active career by writing their memoirs or refurbishing their rusty classics. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, perennial bad boy of English politics, who. though not yet retired, has already written numerous memoirs, now emerges from his study brandishing the first two volumes of a life of his great ancestor, John Churchill, original Duke of Marlborough. Churchills will applaud this sturdily belligerent defense of a family name they consider much maligned. Historians may be amused at Biographer Winston's irrepressibly stout language (he is a past master...