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...days later His Majesty Tsar Boris called upon M. Liapchev to form another cabinet, for the usual reason: after other statesmen have had their try at assembling a Government, they are usually willing to compromise again on Liapchev. M. Liapchev duly formed another cabinet, but it, too, fell...
...more embarrassing question could not have been asked of the League statesmen who assemble each September in placid Swiss Geneva. They were thoroughly vexed...
Clearly the League could not define a doctrine which U. S. statesmen have so often stretched or shrunk to suit their convenience, since 1823, when it was vaguely stated by U. S. President James Monroe (1817-25). Sometimes the Doctrine is shrunk to mean little more than that the U. S. will attempt to discourage European intermeddling in Latin America. Occasionally it is stretched to cover U. S. intermeddling in Latin America of a sort which Europeans call "frankly imperialistic...
...senism is practiced by leading statesmen of the present Chinese Nationalist State as equivalent to a religion. Similarly the statesmen of Soviet Russia repose their faith in Leninism. The embalmed corpses of Dr. Sun and Nikolai Lenin are preserved in their glass-topped cases near Peking and at Moscow; and are periodically adored as the elements from which sprang, respectively, Chinese Nationalism and Russian Sovietism...
...went to visit the great, romantic chieftain of Arabians, Ibn Saud, Sultan of Nejd and King of the Hejaz. Before a backdrop colorful with the picturesqueness of desert life strides a stalwart, six-foot Sultan, who scorns and rejects Occidental customs, yet is shrewd enough to entertain visiting British statesmen with their favorite brands of whiskey, mineral water, and even "kippers." When the Britons are gone, all residual whiskey & soda & kippers are abandoned on the desert by Ibn Saud, who, with an oath to Allah, bounds saddleward, up and away...