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Such thoughts as these were doubtless uppermost in the minds of the 21 statesmen who trooped into the British Foreign Office and grouped themselves around a horseshoe table on a memorable July morning. Premier MacDonald took his seat in the centre, around him were grouped three other British delegates; to the right of Mr. MacDonald sat Premier Herriot of France and his men; to the left of the British Premier were U. S. Ambassador Frank B. Kellogg and Colonel James A. Logan Jr., U. S. Observer with the Reparations Commission. At the ends of the table were seated the representatives...
...Chancellor and the Benchers of the Inns of Court. He was to be "wined and dined" by the King and Queen, the Lord Mayor and Alderman of the City of London, the U. S. Ambassador and by many other notables. At all these functions he was to meet the statesmen of the world and to have unrivalled opportunities for exchanging viewpoints. Said The Sunday Times of London: "He could not find himself in England at a more opportune moment." Certainly it seems hard to believe that, unofficial though his visit is, his presence on the spot will fail to influence...
...business of issuing patents became a bit too onerous a sideline for statesmen. The Patent Office* was created and began to number the patents it issued. Between 1836 and 1893 ?57 years?500,000 patents were counted out; between 1893 and 1911?18 years?another 500,000 patents were granted. Last week?13 years since the 1,000,000th patent was granted?the 1,500,000th was issued...
Italy, like France, has two budgets. When statesmen talk of prosperity, they point with pride to the surplus in the ordinary budget; when they complain of some untoward action on the part of another nation, they refer to the deficit in the extraordinary budget. Thus, despite the much-ado over Italy's financial recovery, budgets which balance, etc., the real position (as shown by the estimates for 1924-25) is, according to Ugo Ancona in the Giornale d'Italia...
Since Plato's day, the complaint has frequently been pronounced that we train physicians, musicians, educators and circus clowns, but we do not train men to be statesmen and leaders of the people. It is equally true that we do not train newspaper publishers who undertake to mould public opinion. Nevertheless, William Randolph Hearst has his ideas on the subject...