Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statesmen of its 13 North Atlantic allies assembled in Paris, the U.S. this week spoke with measured bluntness. Unless the French Assembly acts within a few months to approve the European Army, said U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, there will be "an agonizing reappraisal" by the U.S. of its basic policy in Europe...
...E.S.T.), on one of the biggest television hookups ever arranged. Called "The Man of the Year Revue," it will originate from NBC-TV in New York and will be telecast over more than a hundred stations. The program will focus on the newsmakers of this year, the statesmen, scientists, soldiers, the heroes and the villains who made the good and bad news, the history and gossip of 1953. In addition, the Man of the Year Revue program will bring before the television cameras top Broadway stars and other newsworthy figures in such fields as politics, science and sports...
Once upon a time, when statesmen wrote their own speeches and authored their own autobiographies (or at least left that impression), a historian felt pretty sure that he could take a man at his word. Nowadays, complains Historian Ernest R. May in the American Scholar, things are tougher. The modern biographer can no longer be sure just what part ghost and what part flesh his subject...
European Defense Community. Long after most European statesmen had written off the EDC plan for an international European army, Dulles continued to plug for it. His stubbornness began to bear fruit last month when West Germany showed its growing strength and political stability by re-electing Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, a strong EDC partisan. France, which had blocked EDC, suddenly reawakened to the danger that the U.S. might insist on independent German rearmament if EDC did not materialize. Result: the French government seemed to be moving toward acceptance of EDC, and prospects for a West German contribution to the defense...
...with the old Cavalier conviction: "I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honor more." Explicitly, his duty is to keep making the world safe for the kind of love he lives for. Rainier rails at some of the practical aspects of such duties. "Oh you statesmen of bad breath!" he declaims. "How dare you spend hours in your councils listening to anything that is not a sound of a lover's kiss...