Word: statesmanly
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...back toward the shadows. Stalin still had more power than any man alive, but he wielded it increasingly through others, conserved his strength and (reportedly) worked on his memoirs like any good, grey 19th Century British empire-builder. Churchill was still the world's greatest orator,* but a statesman's words, unlike a poet's, need power to give them weight; Churchill, testy and grim, was not in power. Bull-necked Ernest Bevin had rushed into 1946 snorting to U.N. and to the world a great commoner's bold concept of democracy. But Bevin was sick...
Churchill had not become the leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition to witness in silence the liquidation of the British Empire. First there had been India, the brightest jewel; now, with Burma, that hated word "liquidation" had proceeded into the second syllable. An 18th Century statesman who scorns the 20th Century's grey impersonality, Churchill identified himself with his imperial cause. In a peculiarly Churchillian passage he said: "I have always followed [Burma] affairs with attention because it was my father* who was responsible for the annexation of Burma. ... It was said in the [18th Century] days...
...week's end, after another series of futile meetings, exasperated elder statesman Blum said: "I have gone as fast as I could . . . I was over optimistic." Then he suddenly took matters into his own hands, proposed a Cabinet composed entirely of his fellow Socialists. Under his own arm he tucked the portfolio of Foreign Affairs in addition to the job of President-Premier...
...statement is wholly mine, 'tis a poor thing but 'tis mine own.* I'll read it myself." He looked a little mussed but he was now playing the statesman, quiet and dignified, standing above the caterwauling of his enemies. The statement was an order to his miners...
...A.E.C. negotiations (possibly including lack of progress in Russian laboratories), the U.S.S.R. was now making the sort of concession that Mr. Baruch had been stubbornly demanding. But the Russians last week were bypassing Baruch, whom they still attack bitterly. Pravda recently printed a cartoon showing the silver-haired elder statesman gardening among the atoms (see cut). The words on the sign at left ("Made in U.S.A.") are understandable to all Russians, so familiar have they become on Lend-Lease supplies. Under the cartoon were 20 lines of doggerel. Sample verse...