Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deutscher makes another significant point, most recently reiterated in the New Statesman of April 17: "In foreign policy [Khrushchev] continues, amid changed circumstances, Stalin's Realpolitik, even if he does it under the cloak of de-Stalinization. He seeks to subordinate international communism, and the revolutionary movements of Asia, Africa and Latin America, to the purposes of Soviet policy and diplomacy...
...fragility of Africa's new societies was nowhere more dramatically illustrated than in President Julius Nyerere's Tanganyika. Long considered Africa's most sensible and sensitive statesman, Nyerere had assiduously cultivated unity in his own country, preached it to the continent at large. His immense popularity at home had been based not on wild promises of a golden future but on a clear-eyed appraisal of the hard work that lay ahead. His own sober determination to get on with the job of building a nation seemed to have communicated itself to his people, largely through...
That predictability is now lacking. For one thing, some of the old verities no longer seem so true. The Communist world is not monolithic, and Russia's Khrushchev is beset by economic and political difficulties that would make any Western statesman blanch with dismay (see cover story in THE WORLD). Moreover, in recent months new men have become heads of government in three of the West's four most powerful nations. Konrad Adenauer, Harold Macmillan, and even John Kennedy in his relatively short tenure were known quantities. Their reactions to given challenges could be foretold with considerable accuracy...
When Historian A.J.P. Taylor kicked alive the fires of controversy three years ago by asserting that Hitler's prewar diplomatic aims were only those that any reasonable German statesman would have held for his country, a bucket brigade of his British colleagues rushed to douse the blaze. A. L. Rowse snapped that Taylor's book, The Origins of the Second World War, "is a whitewashing of Hitler." Terrible-tempered H. R. Trevor-Roper charged that Taylor "suppresses and arranges evidence." But the man with perhaps the best claim to speak about Hitler's aims and methods-Historian...
Bundy was off on vacation in Antigua. The President now often turns for guidance to Elder Statesman Dean Acheson and such old cronies as Washington Lawyers Abe Fortas and Clark Clifford. He also consults regularly with the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which is comprised of a few top businessmen and several former Government officials...