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...agents arranged for a bug in his room at the George V hotel. The result? A befuddled agent's report that Kraft had spoken with a mysterious woman named Jean Monnet. "I didn't know whether to laugh or cry," said Kraft last week. Statesman Jean Mannet, now 87, is a founding father of Europe's Common Market...
Most Britons tend to accept Wilson's explanation at face value. As the Liberal Party's elder statesman, Jo Grimond, put it: "He came to the end of what he could do." Indeed, attempts to find hidden motives for the resignation do not hold up. His health apparently was not a factor. He looked ruddy and vigorous last week, belying rumors that he has been plagued with various maladies. Nor is there any evidence that he felt he was losing his grip on the party, even though he was embarrassed and angered by the rebellion earlier this month...
...London papers, the big story quickly became not George-Brown's resignation but press coverage of his subsequent tumble. After the Guardian, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Express all carried front-page photos of the elder statesman's dive, the lordly Times weighed in with a cane-wagging editorial scolding them for lack of "compassion and delicacy" in showing George-Brown "fallen in the gutter." Perhaps, the Times added sarcastically, the other papers "resented his infringing their monopoly" there...
While you scorn former President Nixon at home, he is honored abroad as the able statesman...
...easily the Senate's coolest elder statesman. Genial, pipe-smoking Democrat Mike Mansfield, Montana Senator since 1953 and his party's majority leader since 1961, can be sharp-tongued when he needs to be. But in 15 years of Senate floor leadership - the longest tenure of any floor leader in the history of the upper chamber - he is legendary for almost never having lost his temper. Other majority leaders, like Mansfield's predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, bullied, threatened and arm-twist ed recalcitrant colleagues. The Montanan soothed, persuaded with calm reason and took the quiet...