Word: statesmen
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...great trade advantages both to the United States and to Russia which would result from recognition offer a logical and sufficient motive for this action, but Japanese statesmen, while politely expressing their approval of the move, cannot but regard the rapprochement with increasing disquietude...
Talk of war and another 1914 crisis has done its share in adding to the scares and apprehensions which the economic world trembles over, but while statesmen issue notes in stirring phrases the fortunate truth is that money and credit are not as abundant as they were twenty years ago and the likelihood of armed conflict is therefore remote...
...symbol of perfidy to the politicians, and a testimony to the populace that only by the two party system could the gods be appeased, and water and honey made to flow in the land. But he kept face through it all, kept face by being unique among discredited statesmen in that he appeared really to believe what he was saying, even though he had been saying something very different ten years ago, or last month, or yesterday. He must have believed in himself, and in his dicta however incipient, for not even the chanciest wag would have dared to tell...
...phrases. He is devoid of personal ambition, believes himself directly inspired by God. Correspondents figure that when explaining his policies he uses the phrase "according to my conscience" at least once every ten minutes. Dollfuss, incidentally, like equally devout President Alcala Zamora of Spain, is one of the few statesmen who never prepare a speech, rarely use notes, never stutter at a loss for words. His speeches, like Calvinist sermons, are "directly inspired...
Tribune spotted ajiaco criollo, amid the babble of political chatter that filled Havana, as the word most descriptive of the island's whole situation. Havana simmered with several hundred master statesmen, scarcely two alike after eight years of pulverizing tyranny. Into the simmering pot, in front of the Presidential Palace, peered Cuba's hungry but critical citizens. They looked in vain for a master cook. Only one ingredient in the pot suited every taste and that was proud resistance to U. S. intervention. The Sergeants. There were the Army's non-commissioned officers, on a spree. They...