Word: statesmen
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...must, if he ever hopes to become a barrister, eat at least three dinners in the hall of his particular Inn. Thus, by the lime a politician has been through Oxford and becomes a barrister-at-law, dinner-eating has become a firmly fixed habit. Small wonder that British statesmen make such great use of banquets to deliver even the most important of their speeches...
...While war still raged, statesmen in every country appealed in the common cause. Some gave their ships, some munitions, some the lives of their sons, some money and today only those who gave money come saying to us: 'Give back what we loaned...
...French debt is not in question. Premier Herriot has made it plain that all France asks is time to acquit herself honorably. In the midst of debate hot words have been uttered both in the French Chamber and in the American Senate. It is now high time statesmen return to sanity and newspapers to the truth...
...dazzling rooms of the French Foreign Office, a score of distinguished statesmen sat around a highly polished table. In the background were the underlings, porfolios under arms, pince-nez perched on noses, sleek hair plastered flat on knowing heads, well-pressed clothes hanging immaculately from shoulders and hips...
From many places on the Continent of Europe, wild shouts were heard. The U. S. had abandoned its policy of isolation, had come back to Europe once more! Everywhere old hatreds and bitternesses were forgotten. Everywhere the U. S. was extolled. All the leading statesmen paid tribute to the U. S. attitude. All said that U. S. co-operation had been bought at a cheap price...