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...immediate aims of the French and Russian statesmen of that time, as revealed by the disclosure of their secret agreements and dispatches, were three in number. These were the most important features of their more general imperialistic policy. The first was the manipulation of the Balkan situation to satisfy Russia's aims with respect to the Bosphorus, and to furnish a pretext for a general war when they found the time ripe for one. The second of their endeavors was to involve England so thoroughly in their schemes and diplomacy that when the crucial moment came she would be unable...
...adopting the resolution just quoted, the Assembly registered for posterity that in March, 1926, the foremost statesmen of Europe were not yet ready to take the final step designed to bring the Locarno Treaties into effect...
...Russia knew that they had Germany in a net from which she could not possibly escape. The Triple Alliance was weakened by the practical withdrawal of Italy and the weakness of Austria. With Russia on the east, France on the west, and England in control of the seas, the statesmen of these countries saw that Germany must inevitably succumb to their policy...
...accomplished statesmen met as they strolled about the great Spring Fair at Lyons last week. One was the bland and moon-faced M. Christian G. Rakovsky, Soviet Ambassador to France. The other was the vital, curly-haired Mayor of Lyons, M. Edouard Herriot, President of the Chamber of Deputies, former Premier, and still leader of the most potent political bloc in France, Le Cartel des Gauches (coalition of Left Parties...
...Lichauce '23, he published a book entitled "The Conquest of the Philippines by the United States, 1898-1925." In this book Mr. Storey paints the treatment of the Philippines as something of a blot upon the good name of the United States, and points out clearly who the statesmen were to whom the responsibility for our Philippine policy must be chiefly ascribed...