POLITICIANS’ PRETENSIONS
Mr Sisley Huddleston, an American journalist who has lived for many years in France, reflects on the pettiness of politics in his new book, “In My Time.” He writes:—ln Paris, in Geneva, how many Ministers have I seen come and go! how may alarums and excursions have disturbed us! The little men have played their little parts on the little stage; and of them history will remember a very few, and to that few it will attribute scanty talents. Why grow hot at the pettiness and the spitefulness and pitifulness of what is grotesquely called "la grande politique?” Let us smile at the pretensions of mediocre men elevated by circumstances above their fellows. Destiny will continue to shape our ends: neither the statesmen nor I can control the true springs of action which lie deep and hidden.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23648, 4 November 1938, Page 13
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