Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immense confidence which George Marshall inspired was the most important fact in U.S. relations with the world last week. President Truman had often called him "the greatest living American." Congress, having listened to his hours of patient testimony before wartime committees, respected him. The world at large, to which he was not as well known as Eisenhower, Patton or MacArthur, realized that he was the great architect of the military victory...
...approval of its people, as seeking "no aggrandizement, territorial or otherwise." At almost every international gathering since then, American diplomats have steadfastly and admirably insisted on being the protectors of dependent peoples and non-self-governing areas, sometimes without much practical success. Especially since the institution of the Byrnes "patient but firm" policy toward Russia, rarely have the men of the various nations' foreign ministeries met without the U. S. representatives excoriating the Soviet Union for its actions of international bad faith and suspicion on this point. The American finger has been pointed at the Russians, often shaken under their...
Daughter of a notary in southern France, Marga escaped from the tiresome tranquillity of middle-class life by marrying (1911) a rich Basque count much older than herself. Patient Pierre d'Andurain paced her docilely as she darted through Spain, Morocco, Algeria and South America. In 1923, the pair settled in Palmyra, Syria, where Queen Zenobia once ruled the desert caravan routes. There the count owned the Hotel Queen Zenobia, a mud-walled but lavishly furnished caravansary, catering to visiting oilmen, desert chieftains and casual Syrian commercial travelers. Within a few years Marga had turned this oasis into...
...Eelco van Kleffens and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak in U.N., Mac-Arthur in Japan, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and, eminently, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in the U.S. But the dam's chief builder was James F. Byrnes of Spartanburg, S.C., who became the firm and patient voice of the U.S. in the councils of the world...
Byrnes at 67 had accomplished the big job of 1946, and in so doing he had grown in stature more than any other public figure of the year. As the year began many regarded him as a mere fixer. Yet by patient, purposeful tinkering with the details of the satellite treaties, he managed to get over to the Russians and the world that the U.S. had planted the weight of its power in the path of the Russian advance. What Jimmy said about Trieste and freedom of the Danube had its effect on bigger issues, such as the Russian...