Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never did a Government stand in such need of "first class brains"; but the Earl was never worse cast than in his new role. To Birkenhead's cold, precise, savage legal mind Indian statesmen with their loose, mystic reasoning from aspiration and intuition were mere weaklings, chuckleheads, loons. By his arrogance to the meekest people on earth he sowed resentment wide and deep, possibly is most to blame for the present fierce sprouting of St. Gandhi's movement in more virulent form than ever before. (The Earl himself blamed James Ramsay MacDonald's "wishy-washy milk-and-mushiness!") He resigned...
...German statesmen are constantly forced to make sacrifices--to sign their names to settlements which they feel they may not be able to meet. They are eager to raise the voting age to 25, to remove from the political situation radical young people who have not yet come to understand the situation. Newspapers should be tolerant in their treatment of the whole scrambled situation. They should realize that Germany is in an impasse...
Groping about in what dramatic Dr. Stephen Osusky of Czechoslovakia called "the most stifling fog of pessimism I have ever breathed," statesmen of the League of Nations found it desperately difficult last week to lay hold of any useful plan for dealing with present worldwide Depression...
Upsetting to statesmen, hours and days of such pessimistic talk had an almost hysterical effect on the leading stateswoman present, Britain's Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, Miss Susan Lawrence. Eagerly she snatched at a swarthy Indian delegate's proposal that the League spend $20,000 on a "scientific study" of Depression. When a thrifty Dutchman objected that "such a sum, in the circumstances, might seem extravagant," Miss Lawrence bounded quivering to her feet...
Oddly enough one of Turkey's greatest statesmen thought so little of Kemal's fantastic crisis last week that he chose to be traveling in Russia. Undoubtedly the knowing men of Moscow winked at small, squint-eyed Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey; and probably behind his incredibly thick glasses he winked back...