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...buys from us. Therefore we have no reason to think that there is any danger of economic war. Last year the Free State was, with the exception of South Africa, the only† important customer of Great Britain with whom that country had a favorable balance of trade. British statesmen are not likely wantonly to embark on a line of action which would interfere with a trade position so advantageous to their country." Next day ex-President Cosgrave laid the groundwork for his attack on the bill, moved an amendment stating that it "places in jeopardy the rights, liberties, economic...
...works] was recently taken by a prominent Democrat on the theory that it is a stopgap. Who ever said it was anything else? It is at least better than nothing and infinitely better than a continuance of the disguised dole in States and municipalities. . . . The country is flooded with statesmen who orate and stop at that. Oratory puts no body to work...
...Eric then said that he had not shaken the Stimson hand in his role as Secretary General of the League of Nations but in his other role as Secretary General of the Conference. In the strictest legal sense the clasping last week was therefore a case of two other statesmen...
What Chance Success? On his way to Geneva, Mr. Stimson had conferred in Paris with Premier Andre Tardieu. Because France goes to the polls next month and the U. S. election looms, these two statesmen found it best to make no statement of what they told each other to their publics...
...sponsors blind complacency with the national attitude in past wars, it can hardly pretend to be a champion of world peace. The overpowering appeal of the sound of trumpets and the march of soldiers cannot help making men readier to fight future wars on small provocation. If "peace-loving" statesmen cannot devise effective means for maintaining permanent peace, the least that can be expected is that they should not make efforts to rekindle the appeal of militarism...