Word: statesmens
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...censorship banned Goebbels' weekly Das Reich because it printed a distasteful caricature of President Roosevelt. The Volksrecht answered Nazi Press Chief Dietrich's charge that Switzerland was giving up "spiritual neutrality": "We reject spiritual eunuchry. Away with mental castration which goes by the name of spiritual neutrality! Statesmen of great powers should have learned by now that neither love nor liking can be ordered...
...leading statesmen of the Third Republic, only solid, 70-year-old Edouard Herriot remained in France. He was too popular to touch yet. On at least one occasion the Fighting French arranged an escape for Herriot, but he refused to leave his country. Said he: "I shall stay and suffer with my people...
...Lehman as Director of Foreign Relief & Rehabilitation. To Humanitarian Lehman will fall the job of feeding and clothing people of Axis-conquered countries when they are liberated from their oppressors. His job knows no boundaries save those of the world. And since food has written more peace treaties than statesmen, it will shape the post-war world to a degree no man can yet foresee...
...British Raj last week gave one of India's leading statesmen a resounding rebuff. Gaunt, distinguished Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar ("C. R.") has been the outstanding Indian exponent of all-out Indian effort against Japan (TIME, Nov. 2, et ante...
...Republican Congressman Harold Knutson of Minnesota, who in 1935 backed Ham Fish for President ("I know of no other . . . better"), once said: "Hitler is displaying a forbearance that might well be emulated by statesmen of other nations...