Word: poet-politicians
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...momentarily detached but still potent factor in these doings is Poet-Politician Kanellopoulos. He has the burning zeal and energy of a John the Baptist, and to some he looms as a promising leader of the New Europe. By his resignation and his refusal to rejoin the new government, he has shrewdly strengthened his own position, in that he publicly disavows responsibility for the acts of Tsouderos & Co. Panayotis Kanellopoulos is backing his conviction that the liberated European nations will choose their postwar leaders from those who opposed the miserable past and personify a better future...
...does a party receiving less than 10% of the votes cast in an election have its leader proclaimed Prime Minister. Exactly that happened last week in Rumania. Week after election (TIME, Jan. 3), King Carol, hurrying down to Bucharest from his country seat near Sinaia, summoned a ELungarian-born poet-politician and instructed him to form a ministry...