Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the concept of France as a "link" was promptly and publicly disavowed by Mollet, Pineau continued to plump for greater trust in Russia, with more fervor and eloquence than any other statesman in Western Europe. Last week, on the eve of his departure for the U.S. (his twelfth visit since the war, his first as Foreign Minister), Pineau said that it is wrong to wonder if Soviet leaders sincerely desire peace. "In diplomacy," he observed, "facts are more important than intentions." He went on to argue that the West must take immediate steps to "liquidate" the cold war. Then...
...Arvey, 60, of Chicago, Illinois National Committeeman, longtime power in state and national politics, the man who successfully plotted the course to Stevenson's 1952 nomination. Though Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley now marshals Illinois convention votes, Arvey will be tapped at convention, time as another elder statesman and shrewd strategist...
Harry S. Truman, 72, who as the last Democratic President is the party's elder statesman and top kingmaker, has been urged by some to run again himself. Though he declined a place in the Missouri delegation to preserve his much-advertised neutrality, Truman seems to be for Harriman, is angry at Stevenson for not following his advice in the past, has set in motion pro-Harriman drumbeating west of the Mississippi...
...stillness of spring nights was shattered by the popping of champagne corks. Despite repeated government warnings to tighten all belts, London last week was in the giddy midst of the most extravagant social season since 1938. "The British upper class," wrote the doggedly proletarian New Statesman and Nation, "has got the bit between its teeth. Not since the '30s has it consumed so much bad champagne and dubious caviar, trampled so much broken glass underfoot, and driven so many village dressmakers to profitable distraction. Society is scrambling shakily to its feet again and cocking a tentative snoot...
...left Britain's weekly News of the World with a circulation that still topped 7,000,000-the biggest on earth. But the size and the rate of the drop-faster than that of any other British Sunday paper-prompted one critic, Francis Williams in the weekly New Statesman & Nation, to signal: "It looks as if we are at last drawing towards the close of an era in Sunday journalism-the era of the News of the World...