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...Protestantism's first formal comment on the eight-point Roosevelt-Churchill peace plan boils down to one main criticism: it is too full of pious platitudes. Since the statesmen were too visionary, the churchmen offered them some practical suggestions...
Fisher Ames was the Herbert Hoover of his day-except in foreign policy. A great New England Federalist, in a time when the Federalists were down & out, "a man of singularly pure and unselfish character," Fisher Ames was one of those stiff U.S. statesmen, like Hoover, who are respected without being popular, who are admired-by people who vote for somebody else; and who are considered wise-by people who wish they had time to discuss his ideas...
...infant prodigy (Latin at six, Harvard at twelve), the greatest orator between Patrick Henry and Henry Clay (Congress adjourned after one of his speeches, to let the spell of his eloquence expire), Fisher Ames looked like one of the most promising statesmen in U.S. history. But when Jefferson became President, launched his plans to reform the courts, bought Louisiana without bothering with Congress, Fisher Ames became a prophet of doom...
...statesmen, notably U.S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, met the crisis of Sept. 18, 1931 with courage and a sense of international ethics. A few news papers, notably the New York World-Telegram, met it with prescience and responsibility. Last week the World-Telegram reprinted its editorial of Sept. 19, 1931. Excerpts...
...birthday present Portugal had given Brazil a first lien on the Azores, the Cape Verde and possibly other Portuguese islands in the Atlantic. A score of years ago there was actually a popular movement in Portugal to join Brazil, her onetime colony which has far outgrown her. To many statesmen it now seems at least as logical that Brazil should protect Portugal's possessions as that the U.S. should protect Britain's. And if Brazil is not strong enough to do so alone, then other American nations (i.e., the U.S.) might be induced to cooperate...