Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head your May 21 article "Georgia Loses" and admit that Senator George is a great statesman and Herman Talmadge is the overwhelming choice of the Georgia voters for Senator; with Statesman George as ambassador to NATO and ex-Governor Talmadge as Georgia's preferred Senator, it is hard to see how Georgia loses...
...secure. In Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios' exile was supposed to produce a "fertile vacuum" in which moderate leaders would step forward to negotiate. It did not. Labor Party leaders now insisted that Makarios must be brought back and a settlement negotiated. In a letter to the London Observer, Elder Statesman Earl Attlee wrote: "I believe that the government now realize that they have made a grave error in deporting the Archbishop, but will not admit it ... Any reading of history would have told the government that when discussions on constitutional reform break down, and when the accredited leaders...
From his office on Capitol Hill, Georgia's Walter Franklin George, 78, scholarly dean of the U.S. Senate, found it hard to believe the news he was getting from home. His friends told him that his rank as a statesman in Washington would never pull him through the Democratic primary in Georgia next September. Every sounding indicated that ex-Governor (1948-54) Herman Talmadge, 42, who had not even announced his candidacy, was pulling far ahead. Unable to face the prospect of a wearing campaign in the searing heat of July and August, George last week made the painful...
...Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. George agreed to accept, but did not say when he would take the job. In the hand of an Assistant Secretary of State, the President rushed over a "Dear Walter" letter, praising the Georgian's "great career as a statesman...
Many Britons asked themselves last week whether it was not time to go back and offer genuine democratic self-government to the Cypriots. Britain has long acknowledged that Cyprus is Greek; the great 19th century statesman, William Ewart Gladstone, said he hoped that before his long life ended he might see union of Cyprus with the Greeks. The policy of ironhanded repression, instead of deterring from violence, has justified it; it has inflamed the Cypriot nationalists, endangered Karamanlis' pro-Western government in Greece, damaged NATO ties, raddled feelings between Turk and Greek, and pinned down in distasteful duty...