Word: statesmanly
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...later years Caroline Webster sometimes watered a redheaded parrot in the belief that it was a geranium. But when she reached England with the statesman she always calls "Mr. W," she was still in her prime and determined to miss nothing. England was impressed by rugged, eloquent Mr. W. Benjamin Disraeli noticed Webster's "fine brow, lofty, broad, and beetled, deepset eyes." Wrote Philosopher Carlyle to Emerson: "He is a magnificent specimen...
Last week Henry Morgenthau Jr. returned from a three-week visit to London where he had 1) received a feeler on becoming world statesman of Zionism, 2) talked long and seriously with British Treasury officials...
...massive judgment" of Prime Minister Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts of South Africa. Last week this massive judgment challenged the United Nations to win the peace as well as the war. Speaking to a special assembly of Britain's Parliament, South Africa's soldier, philosopher and elder statesman said in part...
...bone-thin, ardent, intellectual Hindu statesman who bears the formidable name of Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar (pronounced Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar) had ideas last week for an Indian settlement. C. R. wanted to be asked to London. Said he: "I feel the British people have been misled in connection with the Indian problem, and I believe I can make them see the truth...
...unemployed. In foreign affairs, he voted against repeal of the disastrous arms embargo, against the trade pacts, backbone of the Good Neighbor policy and against sending an army abroad, thus tying the hands of the military. This is neither the record of a humanitarian, a leader, or a statesman...