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...midweek, in the House of Commons. In an atmosphere of solemn concern there was strong talk of making sure that henceforth the Prime Minister stay at home, that future conferences be held in London. Since war began, Churchill has traveled about 70,000 miles to talk with other statesmen. Britons thought this was not only an enormous lot but quite enough. Churchill may be of a different opinion...
...Conferences will be held in various parts of the world, mostly to no purpose whatever, and statesmen and public officials will continue their nerve war on the people by predicting a sudden end to the war one day, and warning everybody that a long, hard, bloody struggle is ahead of us the next...
...Franklin Roosevelt spoke jointly to the world their statement on the post war future was an extraordinary one. It was either meaningless-or almost Pentecostal. They did not use the language of realism, of balances of power, of geopolitics. They used language common to humanity but unusual for statesmen: "We came here with hope and determination. We leave here, friends in fact, in spirit and in purpose...
...eyes." Statesman of the Intellect. During that time Whitman was subjecting his prophetic and poetic vision to a more intense test than any of which literary history has knowledge. Few poets of that age considered their verse mere ornaments of daily existence; they were rather generals and statesmen of the intellect and emotions whose creations had a tangible, profitable and practical application to ordinary life. Yet even among them Whitman was exceptional; he alone insisted that he knew what America was for, why it had been founded, why it had developed as it had, and what its future should...
...language reminiscent of the U.S. Bill of Rights, that: "Freedom of speech, of religious worship, of political belief, of press and of public meeting shall be restored in full measure to the Italian people. . .."* Even a hard-headed realist like Kent Cooper had reason to hope that Allied statesmen would feel the same way about Germany and other Axis powers, that Russia would fall into line of her own motion...