Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compromise is the essence of politics, the proceedings on the East River last week constituted a memorable display of the art. In the great hall where the General Assembly meets, in corridors, in the delegates' cocktail lounge and at lunch tables, some of the world's leading statesmen cautiously felt their way toward a formula that would allow everybody to emerge from the Mideast crisis with dignity intact...
...fore World War I when Tanganyika was a German protectorate. To his own people, Marealle II is known as Mangi Mkuu (Great Chief), to the whites of Tanganyika, he is King Tom. But by whatever name he is known, he is one of Africa's most remarkable statesmen. He runs his country through a hierarchy of elected and hereditary councils which are topped by the supreme Chagga Council of 50 members. Each year the council puts $120,000 into education and $50.000 into public health. It operates 19 primary schools, 17 dispensaries and six maternity clinics. It has made...
...fell to the Communists, bandits stole a million dollars in Boston, the Korean war began and ended, General Dwight Eisenhower became President of the U.S.. Stalin died, King Farouk fled Egypt, Mount Everest was scaled, Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier, Nasser seized the Suez Canal-nations fought and statesmen died and the seasons made their slow revolve in the Norman fields around Mont-d'Origny...
There was much more to be done in the attempt to achieve stability in the Middle East-more than either force or summit conference could accomplish. But the overriding fact was that, largely because the imminent danger of Lebanon and Jordan had been postponed, the pundits, commentators and statesmen were afforded the luxury of second guessing and peaceful discussion...
...United States cannot be one of the two great world powers and refuse to act like a great power. To ignore appeals for help from supporters like Lebanon, to watch unmoved as friendly statesmen are mobbed and countries like Iraq are convulsed, to make no effort to reassure other friends in trouble like the Jordanians would be to abdicate the role that history and our wealth and energy have thrust upon...