Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pritchett is a first-rate critic of literature (London's New Statesman) who can also write it, usually in a minor key. The people he writes of are, for the most part, determinedly average-tradesmen, housewives, laborers, accountants. But Pritchett has a gift for spotting the seeds of madness that threaten to sprout in the most prosaic minds. And he writes of his characters' inner cataclysms and defeats in a tone as dry and controlled as the featureless faces they present to the world...
Senior Neutralist Jawaharlal Nehru proved to be the statesman, stubbornly and persistently trying to restore some balance and perspective to the quivering delegates. "The era of classic colonialism is dead," he told them flatly. "Of course it may give us a lot of trouble yet, but essentially it is gone, it is over. Colonialism, racialism are important, but they are overshadowed by this crisis-because if war comes, all else goes." He got surprising support from the U.A.R.'s Gamal Abdel Nasser, who opposes the Soviet demand for two Germanys since, if he sanctioned the principle of partition...
...bristled with outrage; virtually every major newspaper attacked Mikoyan's meddling. Headlined one: JAPAN GETS RUN-AROUND FROM ANASTAS. Tokyo's Shimbun warned that Mikoyan's "parrotings of repeated threats by Premier Khrushchev" were no way to "make any sales." In a slap at a visiting statesman that was unprecedented for the polite Japanese, Ikeda's party issued a statement branding Mikoyan's threats as an "interference in Japan's domestic affairs." It went on to hint that Mikoyan might very well go home emptyhanded: "Utilizing an expansion of trade through a Soviet trade...
Long Suffering. Despite nearly ten years in French prisons, Bourguiba has been a devoted friend of France, and the West has long considered him the Arab world's most reasonable statesman. He allowed F.L.N. troops to quarter and train in Tunisia, but to their leaders he repeatedly counseled moderation and faith in General de Gaulle. It was Bourguiba who most notably, though unsuccessfully, urged the F.L.N. to accept the French ceasefire. But the Bizerte base was an irritant, particularly as the French no longer considered it essential, and have been gradually reducing its garrison...
...public speech and private chat, Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan had proved himself the most outspoken visiting statesman Washington had heard in years. Some found the frankness refreshing, but most diplomats were appalled at his bald attempts to downgrade India and India's Nehru in U.S. esteem...