Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...endlessly repeating that the Capitalist states have so teamed up. Last week this Soviet journalistic axiom cracked. When not all Capitalist countries but only two or three-namely, Germany, Japan and possibly Italy-were reliably disclosed last week to have made a pact against the Moscow Comintern, Soviet statesmen suddenly boiled over with an indignation they could scarcely have felt had they believed their own Communist propaganda* all these years. Instead of facing a great league of enemies, Russia faced only a pact of two or three-yet Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff lost his temper completely in Moscow...
...diplomats of the humorless Japanese Empire ever know quite how impudently they are being negotiated with by silkily-polite Chinese statesmen, all of whom seem to have a sense of humor as irrepressible as the Chinese countenance is expressionless...
Editors and statesmen of every capital in the world last week responded to news of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's landslide re-election (TIME. Nov. 9) with an international ovation for the winner. In Berlin the President was hailed as an exponent of the führerprinzip ("leadership principle") of Der Führer Adolf Hitler. In Moscow a high Soviet official cried: ''We are extremely gratified!" Rome climbed on the band wagon with eulogistic comparisons of President Roosevelt to Dictator Mussolini and Fascist editors recalled his refusal to join the League of Nations in Sanctions against Italy...
...China, the national economy of the country was roughly shaken when the U. S. Treasury drove up the price of silver (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934) and for months the Chinese people acutely suffered from the deflation this produced in their country. Nevertheless last week the very Chinese statesmen who were wringing their hands and cursing Roosevelt not many months ago joined in expressing joy at the President's reelection. For one thing, Mr. Roosevelt played Santa Claus to China with the thumping U.S.-China cotton Ioan. Proceeds of this are being used by Premier Chiang Kai-shek for public...
...than on supporting a very modern army. But how are the schools and other internal affairs to be protected from outside invasion? Does he want us to become a country of pacifitsts, a ripe plum of easy picking for any other country in the world today? The leading American statesmen of today realize that isolation is no longer sufficient to keep us out of European politics and wars. If isolation is to be no longer enough protection, then we must have some protection. Like most militarists I don't want war. I think the action...