Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faure was the fourth choice to form a government, a man whom the party leaders themselves finally agreed was the best hope. "He is the exact middle," explained Elder Statesman Paul Reynaud. Shrewdly, the Assembly's old cuties had calculated that Faure was young enough, dynamic enough, and leftist enough to cut the ground from under Mendès with the voters. "His dialogue is left, his politics right. This is a very useful arrangement," said one supporter...
Died. Dr. John R. (for Raleigh) Mott, 89, elder statesman of Protestantism, Methodist layman, honorary president of the World Council of Churches and the World's Alliance of the Y.M.C.A., a founder in 1895 of the World Student Christian Federation, 1946 Nobel Peace Prizewinner; in Orlando...
Canada's Foreign Affairs Chief Lester ("Mike"") Pearson was one statesman who saw the week's developments in Washington (see U.S. AFFAIRS) as a quick way to 1) assure two Chinas, 2) hog-tie Chiang Kaishek, and 3) get the Chinese Reds into...
Behind the big smile that Pierre Mendès-France wore on his statesman's rounds last week was a disappointed and embittered man. After seven months in office, Mendès-France agrees with the popular estimate that his days as Premier are numbered-and that the number...
Gladstone, by Philip Magnus. Probably the best biography ever written of the eminent British statesman who thought that God was a Liberal (TIME...