Word: statesmanly
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...India and throughout Asia. The future of the democratic West depends in large measure on whether it can succeed in winning the confidence and friendship of the Asian peoples whom, until recently, it ruled. Western policymakers have hoped that Nehru-a man with known Western sympathies-is the Asian statesman who could lead a non-Communist Asia into the Western camp...
...Americans able to warm completely to his rambling style of speech and thought (he sounds at times like Eleanor Roosevelt, if she had read more philosophy). He acts as a statesman, politician and diplomat, but he often speaks as a moralist. Americans, who are far more preoccupied with moral matters than Nehru would give them credit for, are always willing to listen to a moralist...
...public's indignation at Harry Truman's summary firing of the nation's No. 1 soldier, it was an amazing phenomenon. For even to those who looked on his battle plan for Asia with misgiving, Douglas MacArthur was a hero, a brave, powder-stained old warrior-statesman who had already taken his place in history beside Grant and Lee, Pershing and Farragut. The very sound of his name-after a steady diet of heroes who seemed half-ashamed of being heroes at all-seemed to leave millions with a lump in their throats and a cheer...
Speaking in Tyler, Texas, U.S. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath gave a native son, Senator Lyndon Johnson, 42, a Democratic pat on the back: "Johnson is a young, aggressive statesman whose star of destiny is yet to rise. I hope to see him some day as President of the United States...
Nostalgic Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, 80, class of 1884, turned up for the diamond jubilee exercises of Manhattan's Public School 69. For his free pencils, books and early education, said the Old Grad, "I owe an obligation to the City of New York, and I hope to repay it . . . Teachers, lay and religious, do the most for the community, and are the least recognized and the least paid...