Word: statesmanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faced Ally. The British press fell into a rosy glow of pleased embarrassment. The Manchester Guardian ran an editorial saying that Britons were not all as wonderful as De Gaulle thought. Even the left-wing press, while dutifully remembering Algeria and the French Abomb, generally agreed with the New Statesman's contention that the British public "recognizes that its old ally has two faces and is prepared to give De Gaulle the benefit of the doubt and concede that he represents the one which we admire and respect...
...week on a crowded courtyard in the heart of the business district. Underneath a gaudy orange canopy, a gaunt, hawk-nosed old man in a homespun dhoti and sandals talked, beamed when children rushed up to get his autograph. At 81, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, India's best-known elder statesman, onetime governor general and close friend of Mahatma Gandhi, had come out of political retirement to lead a national crusade to "release the people" from the burdensome statism of his old freedom-fighting colleague, Jawaharlal Nehru...
...fields of earth have been stained with blood. Now, war would not yield blood-only a great emptiness for the combatants and the threat of death from the skies for all who inhabit the earth. To strive ceaselessly, honestly and effectively for peace is today the responsibility of every statesman-of yours, of ours, of all countries...
...best descriptive reporters in the business, who attacks any Administration's defense policy with shrill alarums and tends to confuse himself with the prophet Jeremiah; Roscoe Drummond, whose liberal Republican tones are so muted as to be ineffective; and the Times's own fusty senior statesman, Arthur Krock, 73, who in his cumbersome way can still analyze a complicated point with more sound sense than most of his colleagues...
Died. Oswaldo Euclydes de Souza Aranha, 65, Brazilian rancher and statesman who gained enough experience from revolutionary clashes of the 1920s to captain the forces that installed Strongman Getulio Vargas as Brazil's President, went on to be Vargas' Ambassador to Washington (1934-38) and Foreign Minister 1938-44), established close relations with the U.S. (though in later years he became disillusioned by U.S. hard-money policies), persuaded other Latin American countries to sever diplomatic relations with the Axis, brought Brazil into the war on the side of the U.S. over the reluctance of his chief and even...