Word: statesmanly
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Unholy Alliance. Bourassa's sudden reappearance in the news evoked memories of a great figure in Canadian history. Thirty years ago Nationalist Bourassa formed an "unholy alliance" with anti-nationalist Tories to defeat French Canada's No. 1 statesman, Sir Wilfred Laurier...
...enemy turned old friend, as an Empire figure with a deep feeling for Britain, as a world figure with a heart proud of Britain's greatness, a mind ever probing into Britain's and the Empire's weaknesses. In his versatility this statesman, warrior, philosopher, orator, scientist, author had a quality of the Elizabethans. Britons thought of him as South Africa's late Governor General Sir Patrick Duncan had called him in the anxious days of 1941: "A great rock in a weary world...
...butter politics. More & more Smuts tends to leave affairs at home to his able heir apparent, Hon. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr. Minister of Finance and Education, and his loyal "Harry Hopkins," Louis Esselen. More & more he tends to see himself in the role he has always cherished: an enlightened, holistic statesman of the Empire and the World. He likes to move at the center of things: he popped up rather unexpectedly at the Cairo Conference last November and met Franklin Roosevelt for the first time (they had often talked over the transatlantic phone). Later Smuts said: "We two old Dutchmen...
Pots. In London, The New Statesman and Nation quoted the Admiralty Stores List...
...although many a statesman and soldier fears that the invasion of Europe may prove a holocaust, the senior U.S. ground forces commander in Britain promises that even this will produce only moderate casualties (see below). Even...