Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What this country needs is men in Washington who will put up a better plan than Dulles or shut up until they have something constructive to say. Too bad we didn't get some statesmen when Senators Russell, Fulbright, Humphrey and Morse were elected...
...Supreme Commander. U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad, heard himself felicitously toasted but also told in plain language by Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: "Insurance is a fine thing, but overinsurance can be debilitating . . . What the balance should be, under our democratic society, is a matter for statesmen responsible to their Parliaments and their people...
...Statesmen often act in a Machiavellian manner, but could a whole people be Machiavellian? Could Poland knowingly vote a Communist government into power, not because it likes or wants Communists but because that way it avoids trouble with the Soviet Union? This was the question some 18 million Polish voters, free from secret-police threats and reprisals for the first time in 19 years, had to answer this week...
...Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS) was also prepared to visit, was assured a warmer welcome than could have been possible for Anthony Eden. And at week's end came hints of a caller whose appearance would do more for the Western alliance than a regiment of bustling, brief-cased statesmen. To Britain's Queen Elizabeth went overtures for a state visit, possibly in October. If the Queen is agreeable, a formal invitation will follow...
...world entered 1956 with a full complement of great men: national leaders, statesmen, philosophers, artists and scientists, many of whom, pursuing their legitimate vocations, would be remembered among the great names of the epoch. But the man who put his stamp on this particular year?the Man of the Year?was not on the roster of the world's great when the year began. Nor could anyone have guessed his identity, even when the year had run four-fifths of its course. Yet by year's end, this man was seen to have shaken history's greatest despotism...