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...remote region, so long slumberously out of the world, seemed to be kindling again from the sparks struck by Soviet ideals. The human fuel there is crude and lumpy; but so are the logs one needs for a great fire. It is the dream of Soviet Russians that their statesmen may become the successors to the great kindlers of Asia: Alexander, Jenghiz Khan, his grandson Kublai Khan and Tamburlaine...
...realm of knowledge, there is "the influence of public opinion upon the foreign policy of the Third [present] French Republic," through an analysis of which Dr. Eber Malcolm Carroll of Duke University may help U. S. statesmen make sense with puzzling Paris...
...leisure moments to persuade German Foreign Minister Stresemann and Polish Foreign Minister August Zaleski, to resume pourparlers for a German-Polish commercial entente which had seemed to be breaking down of late. Once again was seen the peculiar, inherent importance of League sessions-they bring into peaceful personal contact statesmen who might otherwise quarrel over the telegraph...
...What Christian Statesmen are in the pay of Jewish financiers?" Recently Herr Hugo Graefe, potent German landholder, propounded this question in a campaign speech and answered it himself: "My friends, I will tell you one Christian the Jews have bought! Our Foreign Minister [Dr. Gustav Stresemann] has a villa and a castle given him as bribes by Jewish bankers to reveal State secrets and betray the Fatherland...
...France and Germany were bad; but no worse in 1914 than they had often been during preceding decades. The tension between Austria and Russia on the other hand had become more and more acute, since the annexation of Bosnia in 1908, and the great question which interested the statesmen and people of both countries was as to who should be Ross in the Balkans. It was a struggle not for territory but for prestige, and in the East of Europe prestige was one of the main foundations of powers...