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Forthwith, the statement went into the newspapers, reached the newsmagazines, covered the country, was widely read, the Senator's acumen felt. Ergo, the deaf and dumb cannot be expected, even by our leading statesmen, to discuss anything. Back fifty, one hundred years goes the science of educating the deaf, in the public estimation...
Again to Geneva hurried the tired statesmen who gather periodically 'round a green-topped horseshoe table and become the Council of the League of Nations. Looming, last week, for their consideration were the embroiled affairs of two minor dictators: Prime Minister Augustine Valdemaras of Lithuania, and Prime Minister Josef Pilsudski, erratic Pole. Status Quo. Marshal Pilsudski insisted, last week in Warsaw, that he had positive knowledge of recent Lithuanian mobilization against Poland. Commenting to flabbergasted reporters, he charged that Premier Valdemaras of Lithuania is a "man whose proper home is an insane asylum . . . absolutely unaccountable for his acts...
Britons ought to set sail for Germany without passports or visas of any sort. Germans should make the reverse voyage unhampered by official red tape. These statements seemed so self-evident to British and German statesmen, during the past week, that an agreement was reached whereby citizens of either country may visit the other when equipped merely with proof of their nationality...
Significance. Although a phrase in the new treaty defines as one of its objects "the maintenance of peace and tranquility," few statesmen could construe its major clauses otherwise than a loud war-threat to nations which might conceivably wish to attack Italy or Albania: a tiny Adriatic republic, mountainous, pestilence-ridden, and shaken early this year by a devastating earthquake. Since Italy can expect no substantial aid from so puny and impotent an ally, it became interesting to speculate on why the pact signed last week constitutes "one of the greatest strokes of diplomacy yet achieved" by Il Duce...
...secure Vienna as an ally at Geneva, it was nevertheless mooted that the real objects were to discuss the anschluss (or union of Austria and Germany) and a preliminary economic entente. Despite denials that these subjects were not broached, it was pointed out that two such distinguished German statesmen, overburdened by the pressure of work, would not make the journey to Vienna for the simple object of discussing a mutual League policy. The denials were therefore classified as ordinary diplomatic white lies...