Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-traveled Charles de Gaulle (see following story) had just swept out of town last week when a shy newcomer to jet-age diplomacy flew into Washington in the presidential Columbine. He was Nepal's King Mahendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva. 39, a sensitive poet by inclination, a statesman by necessity. He is absolute ruler of a tiny kingdom in the high Himalayas, wedged between populous India and Chinese-controlled Tibet. Accompanied by handsome Queen Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah, in blue sari and mink coat. King Mahendra moved stiffly through welcoming pomp, kept silent (though he speaks fluent...
...Danquah, the recognized elder statesman of Ghana politics, was campaigning for independence when Nkrumah was still an unknown student studying at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Danquah, a lawyer trained at London's Inner Temple and a sociologist with several books to his credit, brought Kwame Nkrumah back to Ghana to become organizing secretary of the nationalist movement. Nkrumah promptly displaced Danquah as the nationalist leader and, over the years, has nearly decimated the United Party, whose seats in Parliament have dwindled from 32 to 13 through the imprisonment of some legislators and the expedient switch in allegiance of others...
...neither seemed to notice. The niceties of military precision were a remote problem last week to President Dwight Eisenhower and his guest. President Charles de Gaulle. The man of France was making his first visit to the U.S. in 15 years, not as a soldier but as a statesman, not as a pleader but as a person of power. His tall, awkward angularity was a symbol of his own and his country's pride: the re-emergent spirit of France...
...placing a wreath on the tomb of Arlington's unknown servicemen. General de Gaulle drove down Pennsylvania Avenue to his first official White House conference. When he came out 75 minutes later, his long, solemn face intimidated even Washington's hard-case press corps. Here was the Western statesman who had last had contact with Khrushchev, the man who was to play host to next month's summit conference?and the newsmen were almost mute. Surely De Gaulle had reported to Ike on his conversations with Khrushchev, on his belief that worthwhile concessions can be wrung from the Soviet leader...
Sudden Tantrums. For informal occasions Khrushchev maintains a mental stockpile of maxims and homilies. During his French tour last month, a Russian-speaking newsman, K. S. Karol, accompanied Nikita on the inspection of the Renault factory. Writing in the New Statesman, Karol noted that Khrushchev, far from being quick at repartee, uses his jokes to sidestep awkward questions rather than meet them headon. In fact, Khrushchev seldom listens to what his interlocutors are saying. In the midst of some innocuous remarks by the auto workers, Khrushchev suddenly launched into a homily on the happy lot of the Russian workers...