Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Israel now prevails among American Jews. There is a fanatical certainty abroad that there is only one truth and that Israel is the sole custodian of it. No distinction is made between the Jews of the world and Israel, and not even between the Israeli government and Israel. Israeli statesmen and their policies are assumed to be inviolate and above criticism. There is a frightening intolerance of opinions differing from those of the majority, a complete disregard of reason, and a yielding to the emotions of a stampeding herd...
...genuine change on the part of the Russians. But the Russians had all but declared in advance that they had no intention of settling anything at the second Geneva meeting. They had got what they wanted at the first Summit meeting-a finding, brought in not by the statesmen but by the public, that the world did not stand in danger of war. In effect, they had got "peace" merely by declaring it. They felt no need or compulsion to bargain further...
...Soviet Russia are racing to launch the first rocket missile into interplanetary space. But if the statesmen paid more attention to television, they would realize that space adventures are strictly for the birds. Even durable Captain Video has been downgraded to a supporting role in a local show called Wonderama, where he shares billing with a drawing teacher and a cooking instructor. The only planetary wanderer left on the network air is CBS's Captain Midnight, who last week, in the fashion of spacemen everywhere, was locked in combat with the inevitable mad scientist...
...German rallies have exploded almost nightly in the French-controlled, German-speaking industrial border basin of the Saar. They are a prelude to decision: next week the Saar's 960,000 citizens will freely vote, ja or nein, whether to accept the statute which French and German statesmen finally agreed on last year as the best means of taking a 1,000-year-old quarrel out of politics until a final World War II peace treaty is sealed. Should the Saarlanders vote ja, their borderland, which has changed hands four times in the last three European wars, would...
David A. Morse, director-general of the International Labor Organization, delivering the Gustav Pollak lecture last night in Littauer Auditorium, called ILO one of the organizations "which can accomplish the objective of all world statesmen, elimination of the seeds of unrest throughout the globe...