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...stupid, petty group of mediocre men who are no more fitted to decide the destiny of this great nation than I am? Why die for pressure groups, farm blocs, international cartels, war profiteers ? . . " There are no doubt honest and conscientious individuals in Congress. (I have recognized no statesmen.) One has only to study their faces, pictured at various times in your magazine, listen to their immature mouthings over the radio, to realize their heartbreaking deficiencies, their utter lack of true greatness. . . . The peace, I am afraid, is already lost...
...international affairs which have distinguished his great predecessors in the Foreign Relations chairmanship. In knowledge and experience he ranks far closer to William J. ("Gumshoe Bill") Stone, the Missouri lawyer-politician who stubbornly opposed Wilson's war policies as chairman in 1914-18, than to the real statesmen who have held his job. Henry Clay (1834-36) had already served a term as Secretary of State before coming to the chairmanship. Charles Sumner (1861-71) was a diligent firsthand student of European peoples and governments, and an intimate of many foreign statesmen. The elder Henry Cabot Lodge...
...while last week, the long-awaited popular revolt seemed to be rising in Argentina. Opposition groups, disgusted with the militarists led by Colonel Juan Domingo Perón, were getting together under the name of Comando Unico (Single Command). Their aim: to throw out all the barrack-room statesmen, set up a civilian government pledged to hold elections...
...great pointed ears. Some people suggested, but under their breath, that with his great abnormal head and his small but very active body he looked like a lizard. . . .") The second trip was to Berlin. The third and most difficult was the voyage of the mind at Versailles, where the statesmen tried to form the world's Covenant that would end its preventable misery. "The task of this Commission," said Woodrow Wilson soberly, "is like that of the body of men who drew up the Constitution of the United States." The cost of their failure was on an equal scale...
Murray put in the Congressional hopper a bill to make into law their recommendations on contract termination. While the bill went over some ground already covered by Elder Statesmen Bernie Baruch and John Hancock in their standard termination clause (TIME, Jan. 17), it plugged up several big loopholes they missed. The bill would...