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Henry Kissinger once called him "the greatest statesman of our era." Indeed, few men in the 20th century did more than Chou En-lai to forge the Chinese revolution and to change the shape of international politics. Chou was for a quarter-century the overseer of China's vast governing bureaucracy. As the chief architect of China's foreign policy under Chairman Mao Tse-tung, he charted Peking's course of independence from the two superpowers, creating in the process a new world center of power and influence. Suave, shrewd and enduring, he advanced the cause of China with Metternichian...
...Though often compared to the 19th century Austrian statesman Klemens Metternich, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger claims to have other idols. "I think Metternich was an extremely skilled diplomat, but not very creative," said Kissinger to the Washington Star. "I hope to have constructed more than he had. He was a skillful manipulator of events that he didn't help shape." And who have been the great men of modern times? "De Gaulle was a great figure," answered the Secretary...
Died. Ernest Hamlin Baker, 86, meticulous artist who executed nearly 400 cover portraits for TIME over a period of 20 years; following a lung embolism; in Norton, Mass. Starting with the Polish Pianist-Statesman Ignace Paderewski in 1939, Baker's subjects included William Randolph Hearst, John L. Lewis, Dwight Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle...
...indispensable part of the American political system and should not be despised merely because they fail to transcend its limitations. But, as Richard Nixon used to say, that would be the easy way. Instead, whether out of gullibility or perversity, Steinberg has chosen to portray Rayburn as a statesman of principle, integrity and elevated vision--a poor country boy who, through hard work and trust in the Lord, grew up to be "by far the greatest" Speaker in American history, and a hell of a cracker-barrel philosopher to boot...
...Tories concede--will depend on factors more fundamental than the revelations of the Crossman diaries. But clearly the embarassments they contain could not have come at a worse time for Wilson, when he needs all the support of Labour's Old Left (Foot and others of the New Statesman set) to control the New. But Wilson gravely miscalculated his legal position when he tried to suppress the diaries by direct government interference...