Word: statesmanly
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...Rutherglen, outside Glasgow, Laborite J. Gregor Mackenzie, 36, a Glasgow city councilman, won over Iain Sproat, 25, a journalist of whom the New Statesman wrote: "If he was any further to the Right, he would be in the North...
...difficult to tell whether our President is a statesman, a skillful politician or a clown. No great statesman could have said: "The one good thing about America is that our ambitions are not too large. They boil down to food, shelter and clothing." To say that our ambitions are not too large is appalling. This is not the spirit that has made the U.S. the greatest industrial nation the world has ever known. This is the spirit of mediocrity...
Pierre Mendes France has been, with the possible exception of Charles de Gaulle, France's most imaginative statesman since the war. Stiffled under the Fourth French Republic (his energetic government was overthrown after only seven months) and shut out of the Fifth (he was voted out of his parliamentary seat in the Gaullist landslide of of December, 1962), he sets forth here his proposals for the "modern" republic which must emerge after the Gaullist "interlude...
Topping the Others. There seemed to be no end to it, no ceiling on his energy, no limit to his endurance, no issue or individual to whom he would not offer a hayseed's aphorism or a statesman's advice. Ever since he took office five months ago, amid the numbing shock waves of John Kennedy's assassination, he has plunged into the presidency with a headlong velocity. No man in the White House has ever moved faster. Few have managed to brand their personality on the presidency so quickly and so indelibly. Corny as johnnycake, folksy...
Deutscher makes another significant point, most recently reiterated in the New Statesman of April 17: "In foreign policy [Khrushchev] continues, amid changed circumstances, Stalin's Realpolitik, even if he does it under the cloak of de-Stalinization. He seeks to subordinate international communism, and the revolutionary movements of Asia, Africa and Latin America, to the purposes of Soviet policy and diplomacy...