Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postcards, e.g., a card showing a Malayan sitting on an elephant's head, with the notation that this man "rides the elephant much better than Ike does." Harry Truman, on the eve of a nostalgic visit to Washington, is lodged in a quiet limbo between politician and elder statesman, exerting no party leadership. His latest newsworthy act was to let traveling members of the Oklahoma Junior Chamber of Commerce make him an honorary Indian chief in Kansas City, Mo. Stephen Mitchell, chairman of the national committee, is hiking along at his job, but hardheaded old pols regard...
...given Wilson full power and authority, Wilson must absorb and understand standards, and value judgments which are based on the very survival of the U.S., before he can hope to give sound direction to the U.S. defense effort. If he would learn to add the skills of the statesman to the skills of the businessman, he could well become the first fully successful U.S. Secretary of Defense. But Charles Erwin Wilson is a stubborn fellow...
Most observers of the European scene class De Gasperi-along with such men as Germany's Adenauer, France's Schuman and Belgium's Spaak-as a topflight and selfless statesman-politician. Few would call him a "great man." But time & again he has been paid a handsome tribute in a land where the simple goodness of a Francis of Assisi, the Italians' patron saint, is more admired than the brilliance of a Thomas Aquinas."He is a good man," explains one Italian. "He means what he says.""De Gasperi," said a top U.S. diplomat...
scum and dregs of humanity In addition, a specific Western statesman may no longer be referred...
...death and the reopening of Korean truce talks; Dulles would have liked to stay close to events in Washington, but he feared that cancellation of his trip might be misunderstood in the touchy Middle East. From Cairo to Riyadh, every government waited to see whether the top Republican statesman, after 20 years of Democratic diplomacy, was planning a switch in America's Middle East policy...