Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Stalin tells foreign statesmen or journalists that capitalism and Communism can co-exist peaceably in the future, he contradicts his own words, or is speaking in a limited sense...
...lead lives of quiet irritation. This week some of these forgotten men & women got a small place in the limelight. At Lake Success, U.N. opened an exhibition of 200 paintings by secretariat members. The pictures gave interesting insights into the preoccupations of people who, sometimes more than the windy statesmen...
...observers, sure that Attlee and Morrison did not want a fall election, predicted a date around May i. But Nye Bevan was reported to be insisting on a "snap" autumn election. If that was really what he wanted, he might get it, for in the drab ranks of Labor statesmen he was the nearest thing to a popular hero...
According to the Telegraph account, the straw that broke the Chancellor's back was U.S. pressure. Washington officially denied this; but public and private advice from U.S. statesmen had clearly helped persuade Cripps that, after four years of the ordered economic life, Britain needed drastic new treatment...
...Wykeham, Lord Chancellor of England, the school has sailed through all the storms of church & state since the days of Richard II. By building character as well as learning into the make-up of its students (the school motto: "Manners maketh man"), Winchester has turned out a share of statesmen (including Sir Stafford Cripps) and military men (Field Marshal Earl Wavell) as well as literary lights (18th Century Poet Laureate William Whitehead), businessmen and barristers...