Word: statesmanly
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Suddenly the slumbering Senate Committee on Foreign Relations lurched out of its doze. Fortnight ago its Chairman, Tom Connally, a minor statesman from Texas, announced that the Committee would do nothing about the Fulbright Resolution or any other postwar resolution. But energetic Senator Joseph Ball, of B 2 H 2 ,* now threatened: unless the Committee acted in "a reasonable time" (say, 30 days), he would force a showdown by tacking that Resolution on to some bill. Newspapers hammered away at the Committee, and Committee members found stacks of angry letters on their desks. Franklin Roosevelt, who shows no desire...
...preacher seeks a sermon, any statesman a goal, any thinker a philosophy, they (and all the rest of us) have before us the highest purpose of all in leading the inevitable fight against the last barrier that separates us from true universal brotherhood. Not nationalism itself, but its breeding ground -ignorance, stupidity, greed, traditionalism -are the enemies of the people...
...Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, who is on a visit to Patriarch Sergei of the Russian Orthodox Church, declared that there is complete freedom of worship in Russia, that the Soviet Government has stopped all antireligious propaganda. Said the Archbishop: "Stalin, being a great statesman, has recognized the power of religion...
...Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, after much pondering and consultation in his office (see cut), five weeks ago submitted a report to Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes on the much muddled problem of U.S. manpower. Czar Jimmy hugged the report to his well-tailored weskit, declined to reveal its contents. Last week, chivied by suspicious Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Czar Jimmy reluctantly released the report. The reason for his reluctance became plain. Though many of the details had leaked out, the sharp, critical tone had not come through...
...speaking up. Unlike Americans, who get their radio programs free, over nine million British radio owners pay ten shillings apiece yearly for the privilege of listening to their only broadcasting system. For their money they get the product of a semi-government monopoly which England's pinko New Statesman & Nation terms "the usual British compromise between incompatibles." Constitutionally attached to the office of the Minister of Information-by a clause so elastic that the Minister can always disclaim control of BBC-BBC is theoretically not controlled by the Government. It is theoretically not a private monopoly, either...