Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expose our family life and the relations in our close surroundings to the public has disappointed and grieved us both," said the royal couple in a joint statement. "We deem an investigation desirable." To conduct this investigation the Queen appointed three of her nation's most respected elder statesmen...
Recommended reading and an excellent traveling companion for those touring Europe: Years of Trial and Hope by Harry S. Truman. Preface-"Any schoolboy's afterthought is worth more than the forethought of the greatest statesmen...
...restaurant of the Eiffel Tower, high above the rooftops of Paris, 200 guests gathered last week to honor a hero of aviation, Dr. Theodore von Karman, who had reached his 75th birthday. The guest list read like a bluebook of aviation, and most of the guests, now generals, admirals, statesmen or heads of corporations, had known and admired Von Karman and his eccentric genius for decades. Without the principles of aerodynamics that he discovered, they could not be building or flying high-speed modern aircraft...
...statesmen arrived in a cloud of hopeful generalities. NATO must be transformed into "a more effective agency for consultation and cooperation," said Canada's "Mike" Pearson. John Foster Dulles talked of searching out ways of "advancing NATO from its initial place into the totality of its meaning...
...leading participants and the evidence of witnesses and victims, was able to circumvent this final act of Nazi nihilism. The 50 volumes of its proceedings (about 24,000 pages) are more painful reading than most can bear, even today, but in them, far more than in the memoirs of statesmen and generals or the official regimental histories and the reminiscences of Panzer generals, are embedded the true nature of Naziism and the cause of World War II. Of the many valuable historical works that have drawn on these sources in recent years the latest is Edward Crankshaw's Gestapo...