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Australians, twice committed to foreign wars along with Britain, increasingly insist that the whole Commonwealth should share in the making of British policy. Prime Minister Curtin has suggested an ambulant Empire Council with a permanent secretariat to frame policies. Lord Halifax, one of Britain's senior statesmen, was closer to Australian than to Canadian Government opinion when he suggested a common policy in which the Commonwealth would speak "not by a single voice but by the unison of many...
...London's streets the people quipped: this is "Salute-the-Government-Week." London's press did not like the salute in the House. Said the Observer: "The Prime Minister has seldom acted more unwisely. . . ." New Statesmen & Nation: "Most arrant nonsense. . . ." Time & Tide: "Unfortunate. . . "Daily Mirror: "Parliament might as well go out of business altogether. . . ." Daily Worker: "Now there is a vote of confidence in the House but lack of confidence in the country...
Today, "young" Jan Masaryk is 57 and the most popular diplomat in London-the most welcome of all those Continental statesmen who habitually visit the U.S. Full of bounce and zest and a bravura that was once described as "something out of the pages of Dumas," the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) extrovert has a selling power that could make Eskimos buy iceboxes. He looks like, and has all the making of, a successful American business man, an elegant European bon vivant, a world-famous orchestra leader, a magnetic political boss. But from his thin lips sometimes come words...
...President for his veto of the revenue bill [TIME, March 6], and to Mr. Willkie for facilitating the veto. This is perhaps the first time the President has been wholly right, or Mr. Willkie wholly forthright, on an urgent domestic issue. Both men, in this instance, have behaved like statesmen, accepting the proper risks or responsibilities of leadership along with the privileges...
...Ever since I was a school girl I have been familiar with the names . . . and I am more than happy to meet face to face all of you Democratic Statesmen whom I have learned to honor. . . . Our next President will be a Democrat! Our next Senate will be Democratic and our next House will be still more Democratic. No matter what the opposition says. . . ." This somewhat girlish enthusiasm was politely applauded by the grizzled Democrats, who shudder after each G.O.P. victory like trees when a King of the Forest is cut down...