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Tuan Chi-jui, one of China's indolent and honest elder statesmen, rules in Peking without a Parliament which, judging from past performances, is more of a help than a hindrance. But Tuan is merely a puppet of the powerful Manchurian Tuchun, Chang Tso-lin. And, while the latter was protecting foreigners, the former's Government was condemning them. There may be nothing incompatible in this, but it looked as if Tuan was not even a power in his own councils...
...author, an eminent Canadian jurist, makes himself the judge of a court convened to fix the responsibility for the War. After hearing the evidence?the written word of Emperors, Kings, Princes, statesmen and others? he sums...
...34th meeting of the Council of the League of Nations (see Page 8)., it was but natural that Foreign Ministers Austen Chamberlain of Britain and Aristide Briand of France should discuss the all-important question of European security, which means a stable peace in Western Europe. Background to the statesmen's discussions...
...spectacle last week of two statesmen corresponding by public statement was one that focussed considerable attention...
...volunteered in the service of the country during the Civil and Spanish Wars, and tens of thousands in the World War. The institutions and the manners of democracy came naturally to them. Their glory is all about you, their living and their mighty dead. They have given great soldiers, statesmen, scientists, educators and men of business to the upbuilding of their adopted country...