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...emerged victorious, it cannot be said she derived any substantial benefit beyond the elimination of that menace of war which had been for many years a perpetual source of anxiety to her statesmen...
...Renouncing his salary of 48,000 marks ($11,400) as Chancellor, Herr Hitler cried, "I shall continue to live by my pen." (Standard Cabinet practice decrees that statesmen shall peddle no writings while in office lest they be suspected of accepting in payment gifts or bribes...
...days later Jugoslavia's sovereigns left Sinaia for Belgrade. What pact or agreement, if any, had the two kings and their attendant statesmen made? Bucharest was mum. Belgrade buzzed with rumors of a secret agreement which was said to have bucked King Alexander up to the drastic measures that he took against his discontented subjects last week...
This February choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club is a simply written, but thrilling account of the drama on the world stage at a critical time by one who was able to find humor in the antics of statesmen...
...panic is over, says Seldes, for "the boom was our panic. . . . America in 1928, and the first months of 1929. was a mob. . . . The responsible leaders, the statesmen and the financiers and the industrialists, were paralyzed, precisely as the British Government was paralyzed in July and August of 1914. The situations are almost parallels. In each case, a disaster threatened; in each case, authority refused to check the force of events lest the very movement of checking should bring on catastrophe. The memoirs of Grey of Fallodon match the apologies made for Coolidge and Hoover." Calling the 1929 crash...