Word: statesmanly
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...came word from Auckland that New Zealand's Prime Minister, able Scot-born Peter Fraser, was on "the eve of his departure." No word came from Pretoria, South Africa, but no such council would be complete without Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, the British Commonwealth's elder statesman...
...Edouard Herriot had not died last fall, as Gripsholm repatriates reported. From the underground last week came word that France's aging (72), ailing Elder Statesman was alive, at his home near Lyon...
...lumbering, good-natured Senator Edwin Carl. Johnson of Colorado, conservative and once isolationist, is no statesman. But he is: 1) a hardworking, courageous public servant; 2) an able politician whose sensitivity to public opinion has carried him from beginnings as a railroad laborer to four terms in the Colorado Legislature, one term as Lieutenant Governor, two terms as Governor, and his present second term in the U.S. Senate. These attributes are what gave significance to the Chicago speech last week in which long rebellious Ed Johnson blasted Franklin Roosevelt hardest of any Democratic Senator...
...father. T.G.M., in a life work of comparative sociology, had done more than anyone else to convince the Czech people that their future was not tied to the blood brethren in the East but to the West's bright horizons. Though Old Masaryk was the first European statesman to realize that Russian Bolshevism was here to stay, and must be reckoned with as a force in firm control of a mighty world power, he never fell for Pan-Slavism, unceasingly taught his people to consider themselves a part of the democratic, Christian, western world...
...world. War has at once tightened and loosened the bonds of Empire. Sovereign, national aims conflict in Canada with a never-dying tie to Britain. Aspirations both regional and national stir New Zealand and Australia. South Africa's great Prime Minister, Field Marshal and Elder Statesman Jan Christiaan Smuts, feels grave responsibility both for Imperial Britain and for the independent integrity of his own country. India, the jewel of Empire, strains away from Empire, yet gives (or sells) men and wealth for Britain's fight...