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...again. When the choice is made, Sükrü Saracoglu will probably present it to the world. Standing between grim, retiring President Ismet Inönü, Turkey's unquestioned leader, and brilliant, chronically ill Foreign Minister Numan Menemencioglu, Saracoglu is their front to other nations' statesmen...
Said Warner: ". . . Just as statesmen and soldiers have learned in the past two years to run back and forth across the Atlantic when there is need of discussion, so in the future businessmen of London or Birmingham having negotiations afoot in New York or Detroit will board a plane where once they would have sent a cablegram." To all travelers Warner promised three things: 1) reasonable fares-about $100 each way; 2) safety-a long-term average of one fatality per 100,000,000passenger-miles; 3) dependability-91-97% on-schedule flights in winter, the almost perfect record...
...Commencement time will come to the world when the armies stop marching, when the men return to the factories and fields, and when the statesmen get down to planning in real earnest. ... As a nation we decided we were not ready to take on adult responsibilities after World War I. We weren't ready even to graduate from high school, and some of us wanted to go back to the eighth grade. Now, whether we like it or not, we must get out into the world and work. The easy days of sheltered isolation are over. We have grown...
...Golden Age. British bankers and statesmen of the 19th Century were the first to establish a world-wide money system. After they had digested the severe lesson of the American Revolution, they largely abandoned the closed system that had previously characterized their imperial efforts and those of the Spaniards and of other empires. They groped, argued, prospected and legislated their way to a new kind of international economy. This new economy served, as no former system had even attempted, to promote profitable economic conditions in most parts of the globe. For about a hundred years, as long as Britain held...
This quality of gold saved the statesmen of the financially more powerful countries from many an embarrassment. If the value of money had not been tied to the automatic action of the limited gold market, but had been under political control, then the politicians of a financially imprudent country could have accused the British of making economic war on them...