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French premiers are proverbially supple in their politics, but last week three statesmen aged 66, 63, and 55 who have held the Premiership a total of seven times proved themselves also supple in their joints...
...silver shears, now glorified as relics, cut down the world's largest painting on canvas-a cyclorama, 400 feet long, at which tourists have stared for eight years. On it is a pictorial history of the World War- cannon and weeping mothers in black, plunging airplanes and statesmen-a gigantic optical illusion as seen from the centre of the circular temple. Parts of it are painfully real. There are 6,000 figures, the creations of 22 artists, whose skill is photographic rather than impressionistic...
...frail, twisted figure of a man hobbles into the House of Commons. Doorkeepers pity his crippled body, and portals open as the tapping thump of his two rubber-tipped canes approaches. But statesmen do not pity the Right Honorable Philip Snowden. They respect the power and swiftness of his mind, fear the sting of his unpleasant, rasping tongue. He, as Britain's only Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented a maiden budget (TIME, May 12, 1924), so clear and masterful that cheers rang from every quarter of the House. Now, since Labor has gone out and Conservatism come...
...their demands. Only to France, which has carefully preserved her neutrality in China, did Mr. Chen send a really unequivocal note of compliance. Toward Japan, Italy, the U. S. and Great Britain he indicated progressively smaller degrees of willingness to make reparation for the damage they alleged. Soon statesmen of the five Powers were explaining to their publics that Mr. Chen's trick is an old one which has often succeeded in sowing jealousy and discord among Allies...
...ears and my whole being fell likewise under their spell." Soon, with a flourish, Signor Mussolini presented the Countess Bethlen with an Italian translation of one of her poems autographed by himself. Flushed and a little flabbergasted, she withdrew. Premier Count Bethlen remained with Il Duce, and the two statesmen got down to signing their treaty...