Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's decision to devalue the pound came so fast that Western Europe's statesmen are still muttering angrily about not having been consulted. Last week London's respected Daily Telegraph told a detailed story of how the decision was reached...
...exposed in an ebb tide. Yet nobody thought it safe to assume that Moscow would make no more bids for power in Europe. With Bevin, Schuman and Acheson in Washington, the representatives of nine other Atlantic Pact nations* joined them to blueprint Western defense machinery. In this field, the statesmen were on sure ground; a scheduled three-hour meeting lasted only one hour...
...George Washington Mitchell, 70, Negro doorman at the U.S. embassy in Paris. An embassy landmark for quarter of a century, Mitchell went to Europe more than 50 years ago with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, stayed on to become known to thousands of traveling Americans and visiting statesmen...
...Matter of Health. The two statesmen did not feel as chipper as they looked. For one thing, their personal health was not good. Just back from a Swiss resort where he had been treated for a digestive ailment, Cripps took austere vegetarian meals at a small table in the ship's dining room. As a fellow sufferer under doctor's orders, Bevin dieted in his cabin-nothing but boiled fish, poultry, milk puddings, custards. Between meals they wrestled together with the bigger problem of Britain's economic health...
...Ground. At External Affairs, St. Laurent quickly made it clear that despite his background and training in nationalist Quebec, he was international-minded. He was one of the first statesmen to promote the idea of the North Atlantic pact. When the idea became a diplomatic reality, he sold the pact almost singlehanded to the Canadian people. Wherever he went he explained the pact in his customary ABC style of public speaking. He never missed a bet. "If we [all the people in the world] loved one another," he said last Christmas Eve when distributing gifts among a group of Quebec...