Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statesmen of all but one Great Power, the existence of God is an axiom and the worship of Him is considered a vital corollary of good government...
...observer, peering through a super-telescope from Mars last week, would have seen the clergy and congregations of the West becoming suddenly incensed against the statesmen of Soviet Russia who, for some twelve years past, have denied the existence of God or gods, and have steadily maintained that Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, called "Lenin," uttered a profound truth when he said: "Religion is opium for the people...
Naturally such petitions as the one sent from Harvard are likely to be received as annoying indications of impatience and lack of confidence on the part of the American public by statesmen at London. Moreover, the worth of the petition as an effective weapon of public opinion in remedying unsatisfactory conditions is extremely doubtful. Secretary Stimson, however, in announcing that the petitions in question have no basis is allowing his irritation to transgress the saner view of the situation which he could well afford to take. Although no responsibility can be directly imputed to the American delegation, proceedings...
Free from duty he will travel in Italy with Lady Isabella Howard, spend his leisure time learning to bind books as a hobby. His greatest contribution to the U. S. was the personal demonstration of attitude which few U. S. statesmen could express and which he best expressed in a speech last year at Princeton : "There is nothing, apart from the ever-important cultivation of the spiritual values, which your country and my country needs so much as the cultivation of esthetic values; not in the foolish and pretentious fashion of the esthetes of the Victorian...
...Chief among U. S. Admirals at the conference were Rear Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones (retired), Admiral William Veazie Pratt. Cultured, intelligent, Admiral Pratt ferried President Wilson to France in 1918. He was an expert adviser at the Washington Conference of 1921-22. Statesmen like him for his willingness to accept less from treaty makers than his more cautious brothers in arms...