Word: statesmen
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...When statesmen and politicians went on pilgrimages to the mountain top, I became mentally seasick. When they said 'there is good in everyone, and we will get the good out of him,' I felt even sicker. We read 'Mein Kampf' and saw that we were up against something that would set us back 10,000 years...
...Allied hearts, a wave of hope rose. The wave became a flood, a kind of prayerful madness. Army censors in Australia, before announcement of his presence was permitted, admonished those in the know not to speak the name MacArthur aloud, to say he if they must refer to him. Statesmen, the press, plain men everywhere cried that MacArthur would put an end to retreats; MacArthur would take the offensive; MacArthur was the man who could...
...Oeuvre, Author Tabouis spent hours in the Chamber of Deputies. Uncle Cambon got her a card for the President's box. "All the lovely friends of the Ministers coaxed to be given cards to it." Several of the statesmen had a signal system to let their lady friends know when it was time to go. Minister Loucheur passed his hand over his bald head three times. Minister Daladier blew his nose furiously five or six times. Deputy Ybarnégaray, later Minister for Youth & Family in the Vichy Government, boldly waved a sheet of paper. "Oh, those gentlemen," said...
...foretold (from information supplied by agents among the Nazis) the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the Nazi seizure of Austria and Czecho-Slovakia. In time she seemed to be able to see through dispatch boxes, the impenetrable files of chancelleries, the even more impenetrable minds of Europe's statesmen...
...outside world, the British Government seemed like the Heifetz of all fiddlers while the Rome of all Romes burned. History might soon make the description fit. But after centuries of British-Indian relations, and even with the loss of India much more than a possibility, few British statesmen could be expected to do anything decisive about India. There were many reasons for this indecision...