Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These scholarships were created by the will of Cecil Rhodes, the famous South African statesman and capitalist, who died in 1902. Their purpose is expressed in the terms of his will: "I also desire to encourage and foster an appreciation of the advantages which I implicitly believe will result from the union of the English-speaking peoples throughout the world, and to encourage in the students from the United States an attachment to the country from which they have sprung, without I hope withdrawing them or their sympathies from the land of their adoption or birth...
...great and still flourishing statesman who dreamed a republic which came true has just set down his dream and much of his autobiography. Simultaneously has appeared a brilliant biography of the late Emperor Franz Josef out of whose realm the republic was dreamed. Both books have much merit...
...tired, greying statesman donned formal raiment, last week at Belgrade, submitted while a valet pinned upon him the blazing orders which are his, and then rode wearily off to the white stone Royal Palace...
There King Alexander I, spruce, compelling, received Statesman Velja Vukitchevitch. Together these good friends had just broken the long deadlock among Jugoslav political blocs (TIME, Feb. 20) which had seemed to defy the possibility that a cabinet-any cabinet-could be formed. The wily Vukitchevitch by hook & by crook and King Alexander by imperative royal command had again induced the Jugoslav "national minorities" to enter a coalition headed by the "Radical" (reactionary) Vukitchevitch, now the chief bulwark of the Throne...
Throughout the week Chancellor Seipel masked the import of his visit to Prague under the excuse that he was there to lecture on The World Outlook. This he dutifully did before a huge, enthusiastic audience in which sat and applauded Dr. Benes, biggest little statesman in Europe...