Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would Churchill be a greater statesman if he . . . embraced socialism just because socialism now has the upper hand in Britain...
...small grey building on Paris Quai d'Orsay, tucked away between the French National Assembly and the former Foreign Ministry, lives Elder Statesman Edouard Herriot, Assembly president and perennial mayor of Lyon. In his pale green salon, Herriot last week received several diplomatic callers. They settled on red-upholstered, gilt Louis XV chairs, beneath five huge crystal chandeliers, to discuss one of Europe's great hopes: Western Union. They got nowhere. Britain and France were deeply divided...
...British statesman Lord Balfour met a young Russian-Jewish chemist. For more than an hour, he listened while the young man in passionate broken English tried to explain what Zionism was all about. Finally Balfour said: "Are there many Jews who think like you?" The young man, whose name was Chaim Weizmann, replied: "I believe I speak the mind of millions of Jews whom you will never see and who cannot speak for themselves, but with whom I could pave the streets of the country I come from." Balfour looked thoughtful. "If that is so," he replied, "you will...
...negotiations with the Reds. Now, as disaster closed about his government, he had Mao's harsh answer. From mid-afternoon until late at night on the day Communist peace terms were broadcast, Chiang summoned his advisers. He called for T. V. Soong to return from the south. Elder Statesman Carson Chang, author of much of the new constitution which the Reds say must be scrapped, hurried up from Shanghai. While the Gimo conferred, Nanking surged with discussion of the Communist terms...
...Palm Springs, Calif, last week, football's eldest statesman had a few words to say. White-haired Amos Alonzo Stagg, who began coaching when Knute Rockne was a two-year-old boy in Norway, had forgotten more about the game than some of the younger coaches present ever knew. He originated such things as the end-around play, the fake kickoff and the tackling dummy-and at 86, is still going strong as coach at Susquehanna University. Said Stagg at a National Collegiate Athletic Association rules committee meeting, where free substitution was the main topic...