Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government, often brushes the whole matter off as "witch hunting" and a shrill campaign . . . against 'spies and saboteurs' who are widely imagined to be imperiling the security of the U.S." Added the chorus of criticisms of the U.S. are such anti-American weeklies as the New Statesman & Nation, which recently said of the indictment of Owen Lattimore for perjury: "Such blanket denunciations smack more of Prague than of the traditions of Western justice...
...last week Yugoslavia's Parliament met to select a President in line with the nation's new constitutional reforms. Sounding for all the world like a Balkan Alben Barkley, old Yugoslav Communist Jovan Vesilinov rose to his feet to place in nomination the name of that great statesman, that friend of the people-Marshal Josip Broz Tito. The Parliament cheered. Were there any other nominations? asked Speaker Josip Vidmar. The Parliament roared with laughter...
RIAS broadcast a 15 minute profile entitled "Chemist, Educator, Statesman." The script eagerly pointed out that Conant was not coming to Germany cold, but had been here for three quarters of a year in 1925, studying organic chemistry...
From science, the broadcast swiftly moved to Conant's role as educational philosopher and what the broadcasters tabbed "cultural statesman" and "social statesman." They reviewed Conant's part in the development of General Education at Harvard and described his two year college plant...
Germans are quite aware that Harvard is a great university, but here presidents are merely faculty members elected for a term of one or two years. Thus the German public finds it hard to see how a university president can fit in as a statesman...