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Premier Poincaré, the great War President of France, one of the whitest whiskered of European statesmen, discovered last week that in the secret code of the French Foreign Office he is referred to as Barbichon (meaning, in boudoir "conversation, "The Little Bearded One" or "Little Whiskers...
...question, which is even more an economic subject than a legal one, but very much to do with fear and dislike of England. When an author can confidently anticipate the verdict of history in conferring upon four such dissimilar figrues as Hearst, Reed, Borah, and Coolidge, the rank of "statesmen," one may well pause to consider the weight of his judgment upon nations...
...matter of fact too scholarly to be "the paper of the working classes," and attentive reading of any number, with its four or five pages of cabled news, its careful editorial expressions, its articles written by many of the world's leading literati, scientists and statesmen, would show that it cannot be the newspaper of a class, but can only be the newspaper of an entire nation. J. B. POWERS
...obliging, conjured together a ministry of professional statesmen. The new Government represents militarist-torn China in much the same way that a sea captain whose crew have mutinied and are fighting amongst themselves represents the cringing passengers locked below decks...
...Party). The pub- licists of these embattled partisans, in their effort to cast blame for the Yoshiwara of Tokyo upon their opponents, have stirred the Japan- ese press to investigate the seat of responsibility for such resorts of incontinence throughout the Empire. Despatches reported last week that so many statesmen of both the Government Party and the opposition have been found to hold a direct financial interest not only in geisha-houses but in machai- of the lowest type that the whole issue seems likely to be dropped by both sides as too inflammable. Director of the Police Matsumura...