Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western world, it was a resounding victory. West Germany, faced with the tempting alternative of Socialist neutralism that would cost it less in forbearance and treasure, had reaffirmed its determination to rearm on the side of the West and buttress up the faltering cause of European union. From statesmen in Western capitals came jubilant statements of victory. But from the quiet house of West Germany's Chancellor came no election-night message. Dr. Adenauer, it was explained, was peacefully sleeping...
Statesmanship does not fit the rules. Political leaders (most of them, according to Psychologist Lehman, not original creative thinkers or artists) are usually not at their best till they are over 50. Moreover, today's statesmen are older, on the average, than in previous epochs. William Pitt the Younger became Prime Minister at 25 in 1784, Sir Winston Churchill not until...
...business with the Communists, in words that Nye Bevan could not top: "In Britain," said the Express, "the people want world peace . . . The conviction prevails that the world is ready for peace and that governments, whatever their character, must yield to the popular will on this issue . . . Statesmen must obey their master, the public, when the master has made up his mind...
...greatness consists in the fact that he rightly assessed the problem of Communism. To most of the intellectuals of the U.S., it is a problem of the right political and social theory, and so it is to the anti-intellectuals of the McCarthy type. To most of our statesmen, it is a military problem...
Dulles' conclusion: "I have seen in action all the great international statesmen of this century ... I have never seen such personal diplomatic skill at so high a degree of perfection as Mr. Molotov's." Other diplomats are not quite so laudatory: they admire Molotov's patience and his relentless persistence, but they think he is too inflexible...