Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither of these statesmen can with reason be rated above the other. ... It is the merger of their separate qualities, as well as the alliance of their peoples, which produces the force which in the end may purge civilization of Naziism and preserve some semblance of Democracy to the World...
Dapper little Lawyer Paul Reynaud, 61, "Mickey Mouse" to French voters, is the most widely traveled of French statesmen. He is the only one of them who has both run a chain of department stores in Mexico and been successively France's Minister of Colonies, Justice, Finance, who in 1938 yanked France's economy out of the ashcan into which the Popular Front had stuffed it. Last week he jaunted over to London to see Sir John Simon, the cold, grey lawyer who is Prime Minister Chamberlain's Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Month ago Japan's senior statesmen drew this indecisive character-"blinking," as the Japanese say, "like a bull drawn into the sunlight from a dark stall"-out into the open to be Premier. He had an awful time making up his mind about a Cabinet; it took him 29½ hours, cost him 2,047 yen for 590 bottles of beer, three barrels of sake, 780 bottles of soft drinks, 910 box lunches, ten strings of dried cuttlefish and six telephones-all but the telephones consumed during conferences by eager candidates, hangers-on, advisers...
...nations that border on Rumania's frontier (Russia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria) only Yugoslavia can be considered as definitely friendly. The U.S.S.R. has never given up its claim to Bessarabia on the east, and last week Rumanians feared that as soon as Joseph Stalin was through talking with Finnish statesmen, he would send for King Carol's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Grigore Gafencu. Not for a moment has Hungary forgotten that the Treaties of Trianon and Versailles took Transylvania from her and gave it to Rumania. Most irredentist of all is Bulgaria, which has insisted year in & out that...
Supreme Court justices from the beginning have been "statesmen," Wright declared, and the recent recognition of their dual role--determiners of social policy as well as interpreters of the law, merely expresses a condition that has aways existed...