Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fear of atomic radiation-especially from the fallout from nuclear weapons tests-has touched nearly all "mankind. Neither scientists, statesmen nor churchmen agree about...
Even if the cardinal goes home emptyhanded, it is certain that he will go as the top man on the church's firing line, and with the respect and gratitude of the Vatican statesmen, from Pius XII on down. For no country in the Roman Catholic world knows such a flowering of the faith as Poland today, and no country owes so much to a modern prince of the church for merely being alive...
...Rome last week statesmen of six European nations assembled in a vast, frescoed hall atop Capitoline Hill. All about them were reminders of the age when Europe all the way from Hadrian's Wall in the south of Scotland to Roman outposts on the Black Sea acknowledged the law of the Caesars. Before them on a damask-covered table lay the latest instruments for reunifying Europe-the treaties that would establish the Western European Common Market and the European Atomic Energy Community...
...statesmen signed-first Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, who presided over the drafting of the treaties, then Christian Pineau of France, Konrad Adenauer of Germany, Antonio Segni of Italy, Joseph Bech of Luxembourg and Joseph Luns of The Netherlands. Hardheaded politicians all, the signers were only too aware that the treaties might yet fail to win ratification in one or another of their parliaments (particularly the French), but even that realization could not dim the drama and promise of the moment. "If we succeed," said Belgium's Spaak, "today will be one of the most important dates...
...Cabinet, without the formality of a trial, exiled Archbishop Makarios to the Seychelles Islands for his dealings with EOKA, the Greek Cypriot underground. Last week, in a major gesture of conciliation, the British government accepted this argument. In doing so, it suffered the loss of one of its ablest statesmen and found itself in hotter water at home than ever...