Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reported Reporter Morley: "The President is a good man. He pronounces economics correctly, with a long e. Beware of statesmen who call it eckonomics. . . .* He does not care for wildcat literature. He sank his shafts deep into the solid ore of Balzac, Bront�, Cooper, Dickens, Dumas, George Eliot, Bret Harte, Hawthorne, Howells, Kipling, Meredith, Scott, Stevenson, Thackeray, Mark Twain. . . . There is nothing austerely highbrow in his choice: he enjoyed the same thrillers you and I were reared on. He knows his James Bryce, John Fiske, Parkman, Prescott, James Ford Rhodes, Trevelyan, Truslow Adams. . . . Among late American novelists his favorites seem...
...Gandhi IF. In the United Kingdom, where statesmen observe the Friday-to-Monday week-end quite as scrupulously as the Sabbath, extreme inconvenience was caused by the Mahatma's fast. Daily, then hourly, then every few minutes the King-Emperor, Prime Minister MacDonald and the India Office received bulletins from the eight doctors at Yerovda Jail, not to mention bales of cablegrams from the Viceroy and hundreds of Indian leaders. If? worried the British?if Gandhi actually died without breaking his fast, would that release the violence which hundreds of millions of Indians are capable* of exerting, but which...
...slightest intention of modifying its Manchurian policy one iota but it was burningly anxious to know just how far the U. S. and Europe would back their "moral indignation." European reports were reassuring. British editors were as indignant as those in the U. S. but British statesmen kept very silent, anxious not to endanger their friendly relations with Japan. So did the French. French citizens have money invested in the Chinese Eastern Railway, which they are anxious to sell to Japan. In the U. S. the complete text of the Stimson speech was cabled to Japan. Smiling little Ambassador Katsuji...
This struck the supersensitive skins of Japanese statesmen as a direct charge of aggression in Manchuria. Possibly organized by the Foreign Office, all Japanese newspapers commenced a great Yakamashii or "Big Noise." Above the Yakamashii a Foreign Office spokesman announced that Japan was just about to recognize formally the existence of her puppet state "Manchoukuo." As a practical step toward doing so General Nobuyoshi Muto replaced General Honjo as commander in Manchuria with the impressive titles of "Supreme Military and Commander," "Ambassador on Special Mission...
...Both statesmen are tireless pipe puffers. While Mr. Baldwin puffed Mr. Thomas let his pipe grow cold, speaking volubly of how the world crisis had grown worse & worse "until the down and out spirit became prevalent in the minds of many people...