Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief politician, Akram Hourani, who urged the merger with Nasser, is now exiled to a harmless desk job in Cairo...
Bidding for political power, the Lower Congo's Abako Party announced it would boycott the December vote rather than submit to the "slowness" of Brussels' timetable. Hoping to gain control of the rival Congolese National Movement, an ambitious politician named Patrice Lumumba increased the ante. Fiery Lumumba, a 33-year-old former postal clerk and convicted embezzler, cried, "Total independence NOW NOW NOW," at a Stanleyville meeting of his followers, many of them armed with spears and painted as if for battle. Police rushed in to arrest Lumumba, and his supporters fought back, touching off two days...
Died. Julian Ulrych, 71, quiet, self-effacing, $20.44-a-week London hotel dishwasher, a powerful pre-World War II Polish politician and Cabinet Minister; who fought Russia during World War I, Germany during World War II, Communists after V-day, finally fled to England where he rejected a British pension, said: "One has to accept the bad things of life with the good"; in London...
...Symington's hopes of emerging as his party's choice in Los Angeles next summer rest largely on his negative assets and the appeal they might have to professional politicians. At 58 (last June), he is neither too young nor too old. As an Episcopalian, he does not have to worry, as Kennedy does, about the widespread conviction that a Roman Catholic cannot be elected President. As a politician who has run for high public office twice and won twice, he does not carry Adlai Stevenson's stigma of past defeats. Though he has voted a straight...
...wonders if the Conlon Associates report, regardless of its considerable merit, may not be used as a politician Rocinante on which foreign policy makers can charge the windmills of "public opinion." While Franklin Roosevelt advanced an unpopular foreign policy through major speeches (witness his "Quarantine the Aggressors" speech of 1937), future foreign policy-makers may hide behind the testimony of "experts," to give authority to innovation. It is encouraging to see that someone is interested in Red China recognition, but at the same time it is saddening to see that the arguments must be presented in such an oblique manner...