Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge of persuading Nasser to reach a Suez agreement: Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, regarded by some of his Commonwealth partners as the ablest statesman now in office in the Commonwealth...
Personality: Six feet two, known as "Burly Bob to constituents, Menzies looks every inch the statesman. A renowned, mellifluous, graceful and witty orator, he disdains speechwriters, has immense personal courage and an effective way with interjectors (Australian for hecklers). Once, after delivering a speech in a 103° fever, he asked the Duke of Gloucester: "Sir, what did I talk about?" His Royal Highness replied: "My dear boy, I don't know, but it was damned good." After Menzies took office in 1939, a brash reporter asked: "I suppose you'll consult the powerful interests who control...
...that you have jinxed Harry S. Truman into oblivion with your Aug. 13 cover, he is no longer an "elder statesman" (by his own admission) nor a "live politician" (by his irresponsible statements at the convention). He has now joined the ranks of the has-beens...
...greatest helping of political attention he has received since upsetting Tom Dewey for the presidency in 1948. He was in Chicago less than three hours before he began cutting into the buttery era of good feeling with a sharp knife. Then, with all his influence as ex-statesman and master politico, he plumped for New York's Governor Averell Harriman for the presidential nomination, gave his ex-presidential word that Harriman's experience could best serve the party and the nation. He spurned Front Runner Adlai Stevenson with some thing close to contempt when he announced that this...
...instrument of imperialism . . . formed by a number of French counts and unemployed Englishmen," and shouted that if the British tried to return, "we know how to repel pirates." Hours later, calming down a little, the government ordered the British cotton loaded again, and Nasser announced in ringing statesman's tones:"We are as ever determined to honor all our international obligations. Freedom of navigation in the Suez Canal is not affected in any degree...