Word: observerer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Nanking to London, there was much less uncertainty in the political prospect than in the economic. The essentials of the Byrnes-Vandenberg bipartisan internationalist line had been laid down so firmly that no well-informed observer expected the Republicans to repeat 1920 by pulling the U.S. back into its...
Always concerned with the relevance of personal psychology upon political events, Koestler dissects the Arab-British-Jewish triangle and finds that the British colonial administrators, "not the best type of Englishman," feel uncomfortable and ineffectual in their dealings with the legalistically impeccable but personally over-intense Jewish leaders, represented in...
Today, to the casual observer, it appears much the same, but to those who took their recent hour exams in its great hall, there came the sneaking suspicion that there was a stirring and constant life in the very heart of the venerable building.
Author of "Russia on the Way," Salisbury served as newspaper correspondent in Russia during the war, and has acted as an observer of Russian foreign policy in action at San Francisco, Hunter College, Lake Success, and Flushing Meadows.
By V-E day or soon after, he argues, the British were able to persuade U.S. "reactionaries" in the State Department and elsewhere to back British imperial interests against Russia. The Soviets became alarmed and rang down the Iron Curtain. Thinks Elliott: the "only two nations whose security interests clash...