Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khalidi, foreign minister until the Nabulsi government took over last October on a wave of anti-Western sentiment, is considered an elder statesman with leanings toward the West...
...support of Tory right-wingers if Makarios were released on these terms. The Marquess of Salisbury, 63-year-old scion of the Cecil family, who have advised England's monarchs since the days of the first Queen Elizabeth, was even more adamant. Inflexibly, the tough-minded elder statesman pointed out that Makarios had "deliberately refrained" from meeting Britain's conditions for his release. To free the Archbishop now, he insisted, would be an act of disloyalty to Turkey, a trusted ally who had stood by Britain throughout the Suez crisis and who regarded Makarios' goal of enosis...
...Frank Brewster's past remained an embarrassment. When, as befits an ambitious labor statesman, a biography was being written about President Dave Beck, the authors had a problem: how to deal with the part Brewster had played in Beck's life. They suggested to Beck that Brewster could be handled in one of three ways: 1) he could be played up as a picket-line hero, 2) he could be treated as a roughneck problem child, 3) he could be ignored. Beck sat thinking for a long while, finally moved his soft hands across the table and made...
...handle it, on grounds that it might be libelous*; the book lambastes almost every major London daily from the Times to the tabloids, but most refused to reply or to review it. In one of the few magazine comments on the book, a columnist in the left-wing New Statesman and Nation declared: "His main case is both well founded and important, and it seems to me a shocking thing that it should be made so very difficult for the ordinary reading public to hear it." The New Statesman's columnist: Francis Williams...
...Pasha." That afternoon Menderes, who for years has suggested that Inonu is little better than a superannuated blunderer, rose at his front desk to praise "my pasha" as "a statesman who holds an assured place in history as one of Turkey's greatest men." Then he said: "The government is willing to consider all the issues presented by the Opposition if they are presented in moderate ways...