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Plainly the two statesmen were on each other's nerves. The Count's visit to England is reputedly to convince James Ramsay MacDonald that the legitimate heir to the throne of Hungary, famed Archduke Otto ("Little Otto") of Habsburg must and should be restored when he reaches his majority next...
...Viceroy and The Army. In the provinces (future states) abolition of Dyarchy is expected to soothe native opinion and admit native statesmen to all ministries of the government. Eventually then, the Indian federation would be made up of locally self-governed states. But at the top of the whole pyramid the Viceroy must remain supreme, strong in his command of the army...
Hardest working, quickest acting Foreign Minister in Europe is Signor Dino Grandi, spade-bearded, snapping-eyed. Last week he: 1) Appointed Edda Mussolini's husband to be Consul General at Shanghai, China; 2) Sought to soothe French statesmen ruffled by Il Duce's warlike outbursts (TIME, June 2) with a proposal that both France and Italy suspend naval building during 1930 and try to reach an accord; 3) Rushed off to Warsaw for a week's confab with Polish statesmen "on matters of trade...
Says Author Adams: "No Adams has ever been a party man." When statesmen came out and politicians came in, the Adamses were gradually forced further and further out of .public life. John Quincy, Minister to The Hague at 27, was second and last of the Adamses to reach the White House. After his single Presidential term he was elected to the House of Representatives, served there long and well, died in harness. Charles Francis, in the third generation, was Minister to England during the anxious times of the Civil...
...Moscow this is the very thing Soviet statesmen expect, fear. As Communists they are arrayed against the Capitalist world. They expect it to fight back. When President Herbert Hoover and Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald summoned the London Naval Conference a queer thing happened in Moscow. Newsorgans directly under the Dictator's thumb screamed with alarm, warned that at last representatives of the Capitalist nations were meeting to organize secretly a Capitalist attack upon and boycott of the Soviet proletariat...