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John Drinkwater says that we should have a better type of statesmen if they were compelled to read Shakespeare's works every week. "It would steady their minds, and they need steadying...
...idea, for we find in some of the plays the mirror help up to the modern statesman's nature, sometimes terribly close to the truth, sometimes grotesquely like one's reflection in a hall of mirrors. Indeed, we should not be surprised to learn that some of our Western statesmen had already made an industrious study of Shakespeare and borrowed, deliberately or unconsciously, some of the remarkable economic notions so eloquently preached by Jack Cade, as reported in the second part of King Henry the Sixth, Vowing that there should be reform in the land, he made rash promises...
...world issue of Reparations v. private debts will be thrashed out by committees of bankers soon to meet at Basle and Berlin (TIME, Nov. 30) and ultimately no doubt by a conference of statesmen. Meanwhile, with Aristide Briand, "The Master Parliamentarian of Europe," biding his time, Pierre Laval enjoyed his triumph and explained to the cheering Chamber his more subtle achievements while visiting President Hoover...
...history in a nation's eyes", the famous guest replied with equal grace and spirit; "This Antient University: this Literary Society. This Holy Alliance of Learning & Virtue & Patriotism is more than a match for any coalition against the rights of mankind." Since then, among many other foreign scholars and statesmen, Sir Leslie Stephen, James Bryce, Eugen Kuhnemann, and George Walter Prothero have been chosen to honorary membership; Jean Jules Jusserand was orator in 1912; Alfred Noyes, poet in 1915. The roll of men who have joined the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa in honoring these occasions is as distinguished...
Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes, continuing his pointed refusal to sit with the Council, operated somewhat mysteriously from his Ritz Hotel sitting room. Once the General barked: "I'll have a dead secretary if anything leaks out." Later when correspondents suggested that other statesmen with whom he conferred might give an inkling, Hell-&-Maria shrilled: "They are not telling anything about what I have been doing, because nobody knows that except myself...