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...promises, of course, are often superseded by subsequent arrangements, and in Moscow last week another German Ambassador, Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg, may have been discussing an arrangement about Turkey with Russia's new Premier. Access to the Mediterranean Sea is still a preoccupation with all Russian statesmen, and an offer of joint control of the Dardanelles might cause Premier Stalin to forget his promise to Turkey. In the meantime, in Ankara, Franz von Papen already had a jimmy in the doorjamb...
There was more evidence than newspaper talk and statesmen's declarations last week that Japan was taking some of its military blue chips out of China and staking them against the game farther south. Shanghai reported that Japan was already withdrawing troops from inner China toward the seacoast. Shanghai prophets predicted that Japan would concentrate its forces in North China and along a southward line following the rail way from Nanking to Shanghai, Hangchow and Canton - thus controlling China's great seaport sources of trade and revenue...
...complete story of the Spanish civil war; 5) a survey of the events and policies that led to World War II; 6) a thorough study of the fall of France; 7) an outline of world diplomacy since World War I; 8) a guide to the ways & means by which statesmen make politics. The publishers overlook the most important point-Men and Politics is the Out of the Night of the intelligentsia. Without going in for revelations, Fischer's book reveals the extent of the intellectual and physical commutation between the U.S. and Moscow, the fondness of the ties between...
...spite of the political fungus that was nurtured by such "statesmen" as Disraeli, Gladstone, Wellington and others who sinned against the light, it was finally cleansed from the British mind by the long and titanic efforts of John Bright, Richard Cobden and others of the Manchester school...
Latin America was so nearly solid behind the U.S. against the Berlin-Rome Axis that, in effect, an All-American Axis had been created. Whether Latin-American statesmen had been moved by the Good Neighbor policy or simply by a desire to jump on the band wagon now that the U.S. was acting vigorously, the immediate effect was the same. Latin Americans are realists, and active U.S. support for Britain had made the cause of freedom worth joining...