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President Butler, in addition to administering the largest of American universities and participating in the affairs of the Republican Party, makes frequent visits to Europe and has a wide acquaintance among educators and statesmen there...
...Modern statesmen, too, who compare so unfavorably with those magnificent of a former day, Disraeli and Gladstone, are, for the most part, incapacitated by the Victorianism of their training for the efficient management of the modern world. The crop of discord, war, hate, and international rivalry which the ill-timed pacifism of Gladstone and the brilliant but wholly unmoral opportunism of Disraeli sowed has come to fruition, but the great Victorians failed to leave a generation capable of dealing with this dread harvest. Instead, they left a group of statesmen trained to govern a Victorian World, men stable financially, economically...
...rules have not only brought out the dominance of individuality; they have also made kings into puppets for the manipulation of plebian statesmen. King George of Greece has been requested to take a vacation for two months while the people of Greece decide a few matters; the Crown Prince has taken a trip from Holland to Silesia, said to be instigated by Chancellor Streseman in order to split the Monarchist party; and Mirabile dictu, the discarded Kaiser is reported on the verge of a return to the Fatherland. Although the Kaiser has lost every vestige of authority, Europeans are showing...
...week, in a speech at Oakland, he announced his criticism of the Administration?" At last we are a part of the diplomatic game of Europe. We become entangled in this struggle of secret purposes "?and his own platform ?"The United States, despite the blandishments of European statesmen or the mawkish appeals of our own, will be neither policeman nor collector abroad...
Commentators do, however, point out that freedom of the press has rarely been regarded as sacred in the eyes of Latin statesmen, e. g., Mussolini...