Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister thus occupied himself, the Empire had opportunity to pass judgment on how the House of Chamberlain has served it politically for more than 60 years. Each of three outstanding Chamberlain Statesmen has been not the first aristocrat, not the first proletarian, but perhaps the first progressive Middle-Class leader of his time. Father Joseph ("Old Joe") Chamberlain who died of a stroke at 77 in 1914; Elder Son Sir Austen Chamberlain, K. G., who died of a stroke at 73 last year; and Half-Brother Neville Chamberlain, who is 69-each of these three, after years of experience...
Sirs: The melancholy happenings of the last week give point to the old saying, "self-preservation is the first law of nature." Since our statesmen may be as confused as those of other democratic powers may I appeal to you to bring the following seven-point defense program to their attention...
...same ill-chosen evening, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, addressing the Michigan League of Women Voters, clanged an equally unheard tocsin. His theme: glorification of "Yes, but" statesmen, as preservers of democracy's traditions...
Perhaps never before have statesmen of great powers negotiated so expeditiously. As fast as the Big Four agreed upon a basic point, their secretaries took this to an adjoining room, where it was dealt with by general staff officers and legal experts, ironing out all details...
...British statesmen were concerned this week because Adolf Hitler had let four days go by without replying to Franklin Roosevelt's second appeal for peace (see above), especially since in Berlin a high Nazi had remarked: "Our Führer took cognizance of the American President's reply to his yesterday's telegram, but no answer is likely to be forthcoming, else there will be no end of the messaging back and forth...