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...such heated squabbles in Congress over party issues have historical precedent. Nor are the man's allegations concerning the Mexican plot more than the chimerae of one who sees priests behind trees, seditious sermons in running brooks, and Jesuit plots in everything. But isolated as he is among statesmen, Hefflin unfortunately holds the views of a very large proportion of the voting population...
...Northern Russia and especially in Paris during the peace Conference when he served as the principal representative of the American delegation to survey and report conditions in Central Europe and the Balkans, all contributed to his immense store of practical experience. The friendly compacts which he had reestablished with statesmen in foreign countries kept him intimately in touch with the world-wide movements. We have all lost a great teacher, and a friend who because of the nobility of his character was particularly qualified to interpret the affairs of other nations and so to enlighten his own countrymen...
From the cabinet of the Nanking "Nationalist Government" there resigned, last week, two leading statesmen: 1)-Foreign Minister Dr. C. C. Wu, who represented South China at the Paris Peace Conference; and 2) Finance Minister Sun Fo, son of the late "sainted" Dr. Sun Yat-sen who founded the Nationalist movement...
...their kings. Signer Benito Mussolini, as Dictator of Italy, and General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, his prototype in Spain, have now so claw-hooked their authority into the texture of law and politics that the only combative weapons left to their enemies are assassination and revolution. Both statesmen have successfully spurred their countrymen to strides and leaps in material progress. They are the fashion plates aped by all modern personal autocrats. Examples: President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey; Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski of Poland; Dictator General Carlos Ibanez of Chile...
...from the one and only party permitted to exist is a sentence of political death. No Russian not a Communist in good party standing, can hold public office. The 98 who were thus "politically executed," last week, suffered this penalty because they are supporters of two World-known Russian statesmen who have tried to lead an Opposition in the Communist party but were recently expelled from it for that high crime. These two are LEV DAVIDOVITCH TROTSKY and GRIGORY EVSEEVITCH ZINOVIEV. Their names have been among the best known in Soviet history and there are dark reasons why they...