Word: statecraft
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That Japan is in dead earnest appeared from the fact that her "scheme"' was roughed out at an acrimonious conference last week between those two tomcats of Japanese statecraft, Navy Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi and Foreign Minister Koki Hirota. Over their snarling presided Premier Keisuke Okada, who arrived from an audience with the Son of Heaven...
...only about their ability to prove themselves honest.) Finally, there is behind the Securities Act a strong reminder that a corporation is not a thing which anybody has a "right" to create but that it should be created by the state "only when there is some reasonable likelihood in statecraft . . . that it will be a useful organism." Ultimately, nation-wide corporations should be created (and controlled) by the Federal Government. The present bill gives the Federal (only really effective government) its first real control...
Realistically viewed, the Reparations and War Debts situation rests on a foundation far broader than mere statecraft. Pressure upon the U. S. (if it is exerted); scurvy tricks (if they are played at the World Economic Conference); the refusal of the U. S. Congress to cancel another cent (if it refuses)?none of these things alter what are probably the paramount facts: 11 that the U. S. will not fight to collect from the Allies; 2) that the Allies will pay the U. S. proportionately no more than they receive from Germany*; 3) that the German people believe they...
...Concepts of Economic Statecraft," Professor Usher, Widener...
Peace, Peace, Peace. Expelled by Jaures' Socialist Party in 1906, Aristide Briand began his lifelong career of pacification. His first great act of statecraft was peacefully to disestablish the Roman Catholic Church while arranging for the continuance of its rites in France. When he first became Premier (1909), M. Briand significantly appointed himself "Minister of Interior and Worship." Ironically in 1910, Aristide Briand who in 1894 had incited a general strike, broke a threatened general strike of French railwaymen, pacified them...