Word: statesmens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attend the League Assembly last week when it met to approve sanctions, sending instead Vladimir Potemkin, Soviet Ambassador to France. In Moscow leading Government newsorgans charged that Britain was attempting to "bribe" not only Germany but also Japan. Since these two countries are Russia's mortal enemies, Soviet statesmen feared that the bribes might be British promises of aid and comfort should they attack...
...following statement, quoted in the New York Times of October 20, was issued as a warning to European statesmen by psychiatrists holding an annual meeting in the Hague...
...From the utterances of well-known statesmen it has repeatedly been evident that many of them have conceptions of war that are identical with those of the average man. Arguments such as "War is the Supreme Court of Appeal" and "War is the necessary outcome of Darwin's theory" are erroneous and dangerous, in view of the realities of modern warfare. They camouflage a primitive craving for power and are meant to stimulate the preparedness for war among the speaker's countrymen...
...suggestive force of speeches made by leading statesmen is enormous and may be dangerous. The warlike spirit, so easily aroused by the cry that the country is in danger, is not to be bridled, as was evident...
...psychiatrists declare that our science is sufficiently advanced for us to distinguish between real, pretended and unconscious motives, even in statesmen. The desire to disguise national militarism by continual talk about peace will not protect political leaders from the judgment of history. The secret promoters of militarism are responsible for the boundless misery which a new war is sure to bring...