Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent American number of the left-wing British journal New Statesman, containing essays by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Prof. H. Stuart Hughes among others, provokes some observations about the current state of Left politics in America...
Writing in New Statesman (a longer version of the same article appeared in Commentary) Hughes says that a campaign such as his "suggests that if a candidate and his friends are willing to go to all that trouble--and with no chance of electoral reward--they must mean what they say. In the simplest terms, this is what we tried to do last spring. We were trying to impress on the minds of our fellow citizens that for a minority of people in one key state of the union the issue of human survival was worth an extraordinary commitment...
...Washington Post, is making slow but steady progress in its circulation figures. But the Square still remains perhaps the only place in the country where almost as many copies of the Economist and the Manchester Guardian Weekly are sold as copies of Newsweek and Time. This week the New Statesman is devoted to a special report on American culture. It has also picked up a number of regular readers since the strike...
Barnett's journey was at first criticized by some Mississippi journals, with one paper printing an editorial urging "Stay home, Ross!" But afterwards the press apparently thought Barnett's "statesman like masterpiece" might have "expressed the thinking of many conservative businessmen in Kennedyland...
Died. Herbert Louis Samuel, 92, British statesman and philosopher. First Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and of Toxteth, Liverpool, a lifelong Liberal who served his country in posts ranging from Home Secretary to Postmaster General; in London. He proudly called himself "the first member of the Jewish community" to enter the British Cabinet, and after working with Chaim Weizmann to achieve the Balfour Declaration, became Britain's first High Commissioner to Palestine from 1920-25. There, inheriting the disorder of a sleepy outpost of the fallen Ottoman Empire, he put aside his personal feelings as a Jew, ruled...