Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the New South's Pepper of Florida. For the first time in many moons and many matters, Mississippi's Harrison and Bilbo, Utah's King and Thomas, were together. For in Washington this week were no pettifogging politicos seeking sewer projects. Every man was a Statesman...
World War II may make Il Duce's everlasting reputation as a statesman. Few statesmen have ever been caught in such a hole. If he stuck his head out in one direction, it would be chopped off by Britain and France-on paper at least, their Mediterranean fleets could blow his to bits and their armies might overrun northern Italy. If he stuck it out in the other direction, he would have his other transalpine neighbor, Adolf Hitler, to deal with. And so, while the Italian press explained that Italy would remain neutral indefinitely, Mussolini...
Last week began the Great Debate on U. S. Neutrality. Franklin Roosevelt argued for action, short of war (see p. 11), Idaho's Borah for Isolation (see p. 12), Elder Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson for traditional neutrality. These and many another who joined issue were professional exponents of known views. None owned a fresh voice to bespeak the people's horror of war. But at 10:45 o'clock (E.D.S.T.) one night last week that voice was heard, the voice of the one U. S. citizen who could command a radio audience comparable to Franklin Roosevelt...
This ditty, composed last week by New Statesman & Nation's Sagittarius * to celebrate a shuffling of France's Cabinet, was not strictly accurate. Georges Bonnet was not out in the alley; he was up the back stairs. He was out of France's Foreign Ministry, which he had occupied since April 1938, and in the relatively unimportant Ministry of Justice...
Visiting General Gamelin in France when news of the pact broke, Elder Statesman Churchill caught a plane for Croydon, dashed off a brilliant article for the London Daily Mirror, At the Eleventh Hour, on his way home. "Along all frontiers hundreds of thousands of men, armed with the most deadly weapons ever known, and behind them millions more, await the dread signal. There is only one man who can give it. There he sits, torn by passion and foreboding, by appetites and fears, with his finger moving toward a button which-if he presses it-will explode what is left...