Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francis Adams Truslow, retiring head of the New York Curb Exchange (see BUSINESS). Truslow's assignment: to provide expert financial advice and get the Point Four ball rolling in Brazil. Though Miller is sure to hear Brazilian gripes against U.S. price lids on coffee, Getulio Vargas is one statesman shrewd enough to grasp the equality-of-sacrifice idea that the U.S. hopes to get over to its Latin American neighbors...
...British side, some of the most barbed taunts and reproaches, as reckless as those of the McCormick press in the U.S., have come from London's New Statesman and Nation...
...Third Force. Last week the New Statesman outdid itself with an article by a timeworn Socialist, G. D. H. Cole, who keeps saying he is not a Communist fellow traveler. Cole explained his view of Far Eastern events: "I looked on the war in Korea as essentially a civil and not an international war ... I wanted the North to win. The Government of South Korea appeared to me to be a hopelessly reactionary puppet affair...
...estimated at 1,000 villages of 25,000 people, and sell small farms to the peasants who work the land. But the Shah of Shahs is as insecure and distrustful as all other elements in Persian life. In 1946 he had at his side Iran's best elder statesman, Ahmad Qavam-es-Sultaneh, the Premier who resisted the Russian threat and regained Azerbaijan. The Shah, however, could not stand Qavam's growing popularity and prestige. He dismissed him, and today wily old (75) Qavam sits in his Teheran villa, plotting against his master...
...never lose sight of the words of that great statesman, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." This is no time for partisan politics...