Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political coloration last week proclaimed their disillusionment with Moralist Nehru. "It is shameful to remember that India is still a member of the Commonwealth," said the conservative weekly Time and Tide. "Willful stubbornness," snapped the Liberal News Chronicle. Even Nehru's favorite British publication, the shocking-pink New Statesman and Nation, abandoned its usual faithful praise of everything Indian to warn Nehru that he had "gravely impaired his influence in the world...
Says father Ogle: "A Canadian statesman-writer has said, 'the 20th century belongs to Canada.' I'd like to add the footnote that it especially belongs to western Canada. It's magnificent country, the kind I always have felt was home...
...work alone, however, he is calm, efficient and dictatorial. "You can do whatever you want," runs his formula for those who work with him, "so long as you want what I want." As presiding officer of NATO he will undoubtedly exercise just such forceful authority. "Spaak," says one European statesman who has sat under the gavel of a Spaak chairmanship, "is perfectly capable of locking you in a room and saying, 'Messieurs, you don't get out till the treaty is signed...
...also a longtime critic of the Eisenhower Administration, whose foreign policy he considers "dangerous and wrong." But in the Suez crisis, he sided with the U.S.; since the satellite uprisings, Vicky has bitterly lampooned Russian policy. Says Vicky, who also cartoons for the anti-U.S. weekly New Statesman and Nation: "I am in the funny position of having been called anti-American and of now be ing called a new-found friend of America...
Died. Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi, 86, pudgy, crop-headed longtime Finnish statesman and Finland's President from 1946 to 1956, who negotiated three peace treaties with Russia (1920, 1940, 1944), successfully guided his country along a tortuous path between excessive appeasement and foolhardy provocation of its carnivorous neighbor; of a heart attack; in Helsinki. Born Johan August Hellsten, he changed his Swedish name to its Finnish equivalent before he entered politics, served twice as Finnish Premier (1918, 1944-46) before running for President. In 1955 he made his seventh official journey to the Kremlin1, negotiated a 20-year mutual...