Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most interesting chapter deals with the peace settlement at Versailles in which he says, "The most that statesmen could do was to guide and slightly to modify, the influence of forces which were beyond their control--and by which they were inevitably influenced." This quite justly exonerates the men who were responsible for the peace terms from some of the unfair censure which they have received, but it brings forth at the same time a most ominous fact. Men no longer control their destinies, instead they are at the mercy of events. Social, political, and economic forces are so complex...
...India there is at present a momentary pause while the future hangs uncertain. By virtue of the Imperial Conference just completed in London India has achieved a small measure of self-government. That concession by the ruler to the ruled was the result of a reluctant realization by English statesmen that that politically astute saint, Mahatma Ghandi, has aroused the hitherto cowed population of India to such a united and determined stand for independence that they were no longer willing to continue the tradition of two hundred years absolute subjugation to British authority...
Specific provisos which the statesmen concerned hesitated so long to reveal...
...permitted to return to their homes. When the soldiers have crawled out of their graves and the news of the miracle is broadcast over the earth, pan- demonium is loosed. Capitalists protest their presence on economic grounds, churchmen declare the resurrection unholy, since the men are human and lustful, statesmen argue that there is no surplus land available for the 13,000,000 weird newcomers. Commerce and communica- tions collapse, councils are called, panic reigns. Throughout the nations the cry goes up: "Death to the resurrected!" Unwanted, feared, hated, the heroes learn that their wives have found living...
...Statesmen seems to reach the summit of power only to see for the first time the bottomless valley of oblivion which lies beyond. Realizing that the paths of political glory lead only to the grave, Premier Benito Mussolini has undertaken the task of insuring his immortality in the less transitory world of letters. The world's most famous virtuoso in political showmanship will make his debut as a playwright with and epic to be produced at the Hungarian National Theater...