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These problems have not yet been solved, declared Signer Grandi, because "statesmen have permitted themselves to be impeded by technicalities." Urging sacrifices all round in the name of world unity "to solve the technical and juridical problems of reparations . . . treaties . . . and disarmament," Signer Grandi exhorted, "We must all set examples! Only thus can the present crisis of confidence be solved...
...which result from artificial aging and second by crackles wide enough to have rubbled into them the grime of spurious centuries. Modern Satsuma when offered frankly as such is generally an excellent buy in Japan, reflects ever fresh glory on the ancient Clan Satsuma. It was this clan of statesmen and warriors (for pottery making is but a Satsuma sideline) which Japanese suspected last week of a deft and daring move to dominate the Empire by wangling into office the present Cabinet...
...avert an overthrow of the Japanese Constitution, an upset which loomed as a distinct possibility, the aged Prince Saionji came clop-clopping on his wooden sandals back into Japan's political arena last week. Crisis factors which perplexed this last of the Genro or "Elder Statesmen" and made Prince Saionji delay for three whole days his advice to the Sublime Emperor included...
What next? Merely the same old futile thing. As custom decrees, His Majesty sent for the Last of the Genro or Elder Statesmen, 83-year-old Prince Saionji. Once again he would advise the Son of Heaven whom to choose as Japan's next Premier. Meanwhile there were rumors (unconfirmed) of mutiny in the Japanese Army & Navy...
...long road that led him from the Professorship of Rhetoric at Lyon (1896-1904) to the Mayoralty (1906), which he has held, with one break, ever since, and twice into the office of Premier (1924-25 and 1926, the last time for only two days). To distract themselves other statesmen read. Edouard Herriot (like Winston Churchill) writes. Because he chanced to attend a Beethoven festival, M. Herriot is the author of a life of Beethoven. Because he loves the forests of Normandy he has made a rambling book out of his rambles there. Stimulated by a curiosity to know whether...