Word: statesmanly
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...brilliant, literary President Manuel Azana, statesman-reformer, there has been the anonymous life of a figurehead. This week he emerged to make a radio address. For more than a year, a Socialist physician, Dr. Juan Negrin, educated in Germany, a fluent linguist, frequenter of Madrid's swankiest cafés, has ruled Leftist Spain, his decrees being subject to periodic scrutiny by an obedient, peripatetic Cortes...
...history seemed to be in Franklin Roosevelt's mind as, in his ten-car, air-cooled special train, he rolled westward out of Washington last week. Politician Roosevelt was out to whoop it up for his supporters in this autumn's Congressional elections. At the same time Statesman Roosevelt, midway of his second and (perhaps) last term as U. S. President, was out to impress his name yet deeper in The People's memory. Until Congress adjourned, polls of public opinion had shown New Deal popularity on the wane-not Franklin Roosevelt's personal appeal...
...President had transformed himself into the Statesman of the Democratic Party and gone voter-wooing (see p. 7). The Vice President was puttering around his home in Texas, fishing for bass, gar and cats in the Nueces River. Congress had been gone three weeks. Most of the Cabinet were scattering for vacation.* Except for the Secretaries of State and the Navy, the only top functionaries of the U. S. Government left in hot Washington last week were the Spenders & Lenders...
...usually the least influential of the major parties. During this time, France and Britain called the European tune from Geneva, League Delegate Benes' logical, forceful arguments were helping them carry many a day, and those nations flatteringly bestowed on him the title of "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...
...foreign alliances would, during this time, come well into play. As Foreign Minister, Statesman Benes tied Czechoslovakia to a Little Entente alliance with Yugoslavia and Rumania against Hungary, a defensive alliance with France against Germany and an alliance with Russia that is predicated on France carrying out her obligations to Czechoslovakia in case Germany attacks. Czechoslovakians do not let visitors forget that they are blood cousins of the great Slav state of Russia. Eduard Benes naturally hopes for fulfillment of the pacts he drew up. But Yugoslavia and Rumania are gravitating closer to the Rome-Berlin axis, French Rightists openly...