Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same weapons, and obeying the same commander; but before a corps can be organized or a single German armed, the treaties have to be ratified by the parliaments of six countries. France and Germany, with old antagonisms rankling, are stalling. What happens if EDC is not ratified? European statesmen pale at the question, give answers like that of Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer: "By economy of thought I refuse to examine the alternatives." Last week a man who has done more than most to delay the European Army gave his alternative...
Last week, for the 100th anniversary of his birth, statesmen and scholars were once again paying Don J.T. their respects. In the auditorium of the Pan American Union in Washington, D.C., 120 gathered to discuss the vast accomplishments of his many careers. There was Medina the historian, Medina the bibliographer, Medina the numismatist, as well as Medina the critic, the Cervantista, the lexicographer, geographer, anthropologist, printer and archeologist. It took the Union's visitors three days to cover the ground...
Some Paris newspapers called his speech a turning point in French foreign policy. But support for ratification came from such veteran statesmen as René Pleven and Paul Reynaud, who argued that the plan to bring West German troops into a European army is specifically designed to prevent the rebirth of the Wehrmacht. Premier Antoine Pinay, who needs the support of the Radical Socialists (75 seats) to stay in power, was quoted as saying: "I am for a European army...
...first"). Hickman told tall stories about his hillbilly life in the Great Smokies, recited some folksy poetry. (His friends insist that Hickman actually prefers Homer and Tennyson to Edgar A. Guest and that, though he was born in the Tennessee hills, his forebears were lawyers and statesmen rather than barefoot mountain boys...
...proudly salute the gallant American fight in Korea . . . What I deplore in [the] cases of Berlin and Korea is this: the incompetence of political leaders which made military action necessary. Democracies cannot afford the luxury of assigning armies of soldiers to go around 'picking up' after their statesmen...