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...Earl Balfour, dean of Britain's "Elder Statesmen," intervened in a debate on India to offer a solemn warning to Indian agitators. He charged them with obstructing the British Government's plan to help India in preparing for full dominion home-rule, with moving people by Western catchwords, with committing a great crime against their fellow-countrymen and civilization. He refused to believe that Britain would leave 300,000,000 people of India to their fate in the hands of irresponsible agitators. He was of the opinion that the gradual extension of constitutional power in that country...
...significant feature of his political personality, as presented by Mr. Wicks, is that the Prime Minister has a tremendous breadth of vision, which looks toward future internationalism, and yet retains a sense of proportion strong enough to keep his immediate ideals within reasonable limits. In the modern type of statesmen, and in fact in any type past or present, this quality of being able to see beyond the boundaries and prejudices of one particular nation is rare indeed. When combined with a perception of present limitations, its occurrence is more unusual still...
...idol-smashers who rejoice in pointing out that Daniel Webster was expelled form Exeter have apparently assumed that the great American public usually demands from its statesmen an intimate knowledge of past and present lore. But that such an analysis is hasty and superficial is proved rather conclusively by the history of presidential elections, in which coonskin cap, log cabin, and campaign song, to say nothing of the cider barrel, have easily overshadowed in importance the sonorous orations of far-sighted politicians...
...Bacon received on May 18, 1923 (TIME, May 28) the greatest tribute that can be bestowed on an American architect. On the evening of that day, in the shadow of his great memorial, whither he had been escorted by a most distinguished gathering of architects, artists, statesmen, he was presented with the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects. This tribute had been given in all to six persons.* Warren G. Harding officiated in the pageant. In a laudatory speech, Royal Cortissoz said: "Has he [Bacon] not stated in enduring beauty the faith of a nation in an immortal...
...Benvenuto Cellini. In the rooms, which will form the happy hunt-ing-ground of bibliophiles living and bibliophiles yet to be born, are some of the choicest books in existence, ranging from the rare incunabula (books printed before 1500) to autograph copies of books by famous authors and statesmen. Mr. Morgan's collection of Coptic manuscripts is said to be the finest in existence. To do justice to the wonders of this book paradise would take more than a volume; to attempt to catalog them is impossible. But one document, a letter from General Cornwallis to George Washington must...