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...statesman, Neutralist U Nu has sometimes professed to see little difference between the Communist powers and the West. But as a dramatist, he is as forthright a champion of democracy as any democrat could wish. Sample dialogue (between supporting characters...
...Permit Raj. Nehru's fury partly stems from the fact that the Swatantra leader, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, India's most prestigious elder statesman, attacks Nehru personally. "C.R.," also nicknamed "Rajaji," has stung Nehru by calling the Congress reign "corrupt and dishonest . . . worse than the rule of the Mogul emperor," has accused him of leading India to statism and Communism. A bowed and frail Madras Brahman whom Gandhi once called "keeper of my conscience," C.R. was a leader in the Congress freedom fight against the British, was the only Indian ever to serve as India's Governor General...
...love the S.A.O. better than the F.L.N. Susini, the young doctrinaire, and Salan, the old politician-general, have become close friends. He listens intently to Susini's urgings that France needs a regime like Generalissimo Franco's in Spain, "only tougher." But Salan prefers the role of a mystical statesman, without making any public declaration on future policy. Salan operates in politics as he has in war?slowly, thoughtfully, his undoubted courage overlaid with caution...
...Democratic minority's parliamentary ploy of preventing a quorum by refusing to vote. The "Reed Rules," many of which are still in use, ended House filibusters for all time. Reed was known as well for his cynical wit as for his autocratic rulings. His definition of a statesman: "A dead politician." His sardonic tribute to Progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt: "Theodore, if there is one thing for which I admire you, it is your original discovery of the Ten Commandments...
Tokyo cameraman assigned to catch him at the beginning of the new Year of the Tiger (the sign of the Oriental zodiac under which Yoshida was born almost 84 years ago). Unpredictable as ever, Japan's most durable postwar statesman welcomed his tormentor graciously, even brushed aside a retainer's horrified protests to pose on an appropriate hunting trophy...