Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lights flashed off, on, off again. Amid the hullabaloo the Quillsters voted down the anti-Communist resolution, yelled recriminations at those who objected, elected Leftist Congressman Vito Marcantonio chairman of their rump unit. Mr. Marcantonio declined, but he sideswiped the purgers as actors "playing the role of international statesmen. They should go back to ringing doorbells and climbing stairs to get out the vote...
...personally take exception at seeing foreign statesmen stand up and call me guilty of having broken my word because I have now put these revisions through...
...made him either remorseful or humble-or accurate. "Gentlemen," he said to a cluster of reporters, "you have seen for yourselves what criminal folly it was to try to defend this city in a military way, and how that defense collapsed after only two days. I only wish certain statesmen in other countries who seem to want to turn the whole of Western Europe into such a shambles as Warsaw could have an opportunity of seeing, as you have, the real meaning...
...Mecca to which diplomats either made pilgrimages or salaamed. The Foreign Ministers of Germany, Turkey and Estonia all trotted to the Kremlin. Great Britain discussed whether she ought to send David Lloyd George there, and Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria were all on the point of dispatching top flight statesmen eastward. In Sofia, Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, than whom no crowned head is more anti-Bolshevik, wrapped up three large packages of his gold-crested cigarets with his own hands and addressed them as gifts respectively to Communist Party Secretary General Joseph Stalin, Soviet Premier Viacheslav Molotov and Defense Commissar Kliment...
Once when Mark Twain wanted to express the quintessence of complacency, he reached down into his grabbag of artful characterizations and pulled out one of his greatest: "The calm confidence of a Christian with four aces." Japanese statesmen wore just such a cocksure air last week. Their spiritual complacency (the sacred mission of creating a New Order) was reinforced with all the aces and most of the face cards in the Asiatic pack...