Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Infallibility. Behind Attlee's remarks is the clamor of left-wing press and politicians, who seem unimpressed by the humiliating fact that the Red government has ignored Britain's offer of diplomatic recognition. The New Statesman & Nation, as toplofty and ill-informed as ever, singled out Douglas MacArthur as the chief villain, solemnly assured its readers that he alone would be to blame if a general war broke out in Asia. China specialists in official posts echoed the line. "The British government sees no papal infallibility about MacArthur," snapped one British diplomat. Peevishly he denounced the general...
King's success as a Canadian statesman was equally solid. Under him, Canada, which had had difficulty proving its right to sign a World War I peace treaty independently, became one of the richest and most important small nations in the world. From the outset, King insisted that Canada's foreign policies should be decided in Ottawa instead of London. Under his leadership Canada began to sign her own treaties and send her own ambassadors abroad. King's pattern of independence helped change the whole structure of the British Empire. By the Statute of Westminster...
...Wallace has left Gideon's Army," gritted Manhattan's Daily Worker last week. Wallace's announcement that he supported U.S. intervention in Korea (TIME, July 24) hastily set the Worker revising its estimate of the man it had long considered the world's second greatest statesman. Its new verdict: "Shabby jingoism...
...lusting savages who whoop endlessly across the U.S. screen, its Indians are proud, dignified warriors with their own cultural tradition, a stern code of honor and a justified hatred of the white invaders. Their tribal chief, Cochise (well played by Jeff Chandler), is an able strategist and a wise statesman. The story works up such sympathy and respect for him and his tribe, and such distrust of their ignorant, arrogant enemies, that most moviegoers will be delighted whenever another paleface bites the dust...
...PEASANTS OUTCLASS THE MIGHTY U.S.A.," read a headline in Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard last week. The left-wing New Statesman and Nation took another tack, suggested that perhaps the best way to handle the Korean war would be to admit the Chinese Communists to the U.N., remove General MacArthur as U.N. commander in the Far East, and let Britain step in as mediator. U.S. journalists in London also reported that some Britons were getting a certain amount of quiet satisfaction in seeing the mighty "Yanks" get their "come-uppance...