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Since the present relations of the U. S. and Turkey are more than usually amicable (due to Admiral Bristol) there remains for his successor chiefly the task of devising with Turkish statesmen some means whereby the U. S. Senate may eventually be brought to recognize as a fait accompli the post-War status of Turkey. Other nations have done this by ratifying the Lausanne Treaty, but the U. S. continues to refuse, chiefly because many U. S. clergymen still heatedly allege the "oppression" of Christians in Turkey...
...three statesmen who met thus in deadly secrecy amid a conclave of water drinkers were the Foreign Ministers of Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia, countries allied in the so-called "Little Entente...
...Statesmen, be they never so great, must bow before the electorate-the sovereign mob-and thus, last week, so great a statesman as Premier Raymond Poincaré, Wartime President of France, journeyed out to Bar-le-Duc and made before constituents his annual kotow. . . . He told them with a little unguent flattery that they and the electorate at large have returned such excellent deputies and senators that his own task-that of restoring financial and political stability to France out of chaos within ten months-has been comparatively simple. (A wink went round, for most of the audience know well...
...Whereas bankers, statesmen and other personages often fail of audiences [with Mussolini] . . . young girl visitors from the United States and England are almost certain to be ushered quickly to the Duce's presence...
This reminder came ominously when there adjourned indefinitely at Geneva last week an august body representing every Great Power (except Russia) and most of the smaller nations. For a twelvemonth these statesmen and numerous experts have been at work, dignified by a 22-word title: The Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference, being a Commission to prepare for a Conference on the Reduction and Limitation of Armaments...