Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Better than most modern statesmen, Iran's Premier Mohammed Mossadegh knows the value of the childlike tantrum. Last week he sat at home "in korsi," i.e., on a mattress on the floor with his legs around a charcoal burner, and a blanket covering all of him but his head, and considered Iran's forthcoming general election. Gloomily, the aged Premier sent for Court Minister Hussein Ala and told him he was going to quit. Why? asked the flabbergasted...
Spaak glared at the assembled statesmen. "I cannot in conscience approve any longer of the timid policy of this Assembly," he thundered. "Therefore, I have decided to resign at this critical point and devote myself more actively to the fight for a united Europe...
...dignified, do-little Council of Europe is the unofficial talking box of Europe's elder statesmen and orators. If it really had the backing of the nations represented there, it would be the European equivalent of the U.S. Congress...
TIME has mistaken for apathetic servitude youth's quiet and patient attempt to rebuild the world . . . Our elder statesmen are too busy spending their reclining years wintering in mink and summering in the deep freeze. So youth has decided that this generation must provide a "found generation" . . . The values that can't be taught to Presidents and politicians might be taught babies...
Freedom & Order. For a country sorely in need of both policemen and statesmen, Ramon Magsaysay has proved to be a great cop. Has he the makings of a statesman, too? It is still too early to tell. But some of his countrymen are already calling him "the Eisenhower of the Pacific." When he showed up on Manila's docks last week to welcome home his election policemen, the crowd mobbed him and sent up a chant: "Mabuhay [long live] Magsaysay, our next President...