Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Definitely not fit for public print, but locked up with the Geneva souvenirs of League Statesmen, is the Italian Government's official white paper on Ethiopian customs (TIME, Sept. 16). Copies reaching the U. S. last week satisfied curiosity as to what strong-stomached, peasant-born French Premier Pierre Laval was looking at when he remarked to Captain Eden, with a shrug, "Nice, aren't they...
...With British Minister for League of Nations Affairs Captain Anthony Eden cracking the whip, Geneva statesmen rushed onto paper a veritable literature of proposed sanctions and a wealth of erudite interpretations of the Covenant. These boiled down to the unprecedented conclusion, solemnly voiced in various ways, that no treaty the terms of which are in conflict with the Covenant can be regarded by League States as valid against...
International organization is now sufficiently advanced to enable statesmen to prevent war by concerted action...
Protestation of peace and the desire for peace, however sincere, do not guarantee the self-denying spirit necessary for the maintenance of peace, even at the cost of national sacrifice. If any statesmen should think that the apparatus to ensure peace is, as yet, insufficiently, organized, we advise them to devote to this purpose as much energy and as much money as is now being expended on the armaments of the various countries...
...cannot close without expressing our admiration for those statesmen who show by their actions that their culture and morality are so far advanced that they can lead people to a strong organization of peace. In our opinion, they alone are truly qualified to act as the leaders of nations...