Word: statesmanly
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...greying elder statesman of Arab oil diplomacy, Tariki is not satisfied with the 50-50 split in oil royalties and says: "It is only a matter of time before we get the same 60-40 split that the Venezuelans announced in December." When Western oilmen remind him that their contracts run into the next century, Tariki replies: "Any concession between a government and a company is not worth a damn if it does not please the people...
Bouncing into view before some 2,000 University of California at Los Angeles students, Elder Statesman Harry S. Truman, 74, sprang a surprise on his listeners: U.C.L.A. has offered him a short-term regents' lectureship and "When I get here, you may be sorry!" On another whistle stop in Los Angeles, Campaigner Truman, addressing some rapt businessmen, looked ahead to 1960, backhandedly nominated Vice President Richard Nixon as his own preferred G.O.P. White House aspirant: "I hope [the Republicans] don't bury him until after the next election. He'll be the easiest to lick...
...unwilling to exercise this kind of leadership and efforts to "coordinate allied views" at the recent North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting proved a poor substitute for personal leadership. President Eisenhower should either exhibit this kind of leadership himself, or surrender the policy-making reins to Macmillan-the only Western statesman who has shown initiative during the Berlin crisis...
...statesman and diplomatic leader, Ike warned the Russians in the strongest terms he has yet used that if they start fooling around with the U.S.'s treaty rights of access to West Berlin, with any little incidents or so-called brush wars, they are only fooling themselves, for they are fooling around with...
...year since he returned to power in France, the image of Charles de Gaulle, statesman, had half erased the image of Charles de Gaulle, temperamental Free French leader of World War II. Last week the world's memory was sharply refreshed. In a move that caught his allies flatfooted, De Gaulle denounced a longstanding agreement that obligated France to put one-third of its Mediterranean fleet under NATO command in time...