Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enthusiasm. He acted-in the words of New York Times Correspondent Tony Leviero-"like an insurance salesman who has at last signed up an important prospect . . . while the latter appeared dubious over the extent of coverage." Truman characterized the general as "one of America's greatest soldier-statesmen." Faced with such hallelujahs, MacArthur authorized Press Secretary Ross to state: "No field commander in the history of warfare has had more complete and admirable support than I have during the Korean operation...
Working with Price in the backfield were Howard Hansen, Vern Wynott and Paul Vitek, the last of whom has recently undergone a knee operation. Hansen, a hard driving fullback, scored twice on Saturday against the Statesmen. Wynott, a very fast wingback, and Vitek saw limited action in Saturday's contest...
Possibly a lightning change had struck the Greek economy in six weeks. More likely, the taverna statesmen were right in their suspicions that Paul Porter was kani politiki in an effort to get a cabinet more to his liking...
Most of Japan's statesmen turn up in Author Kase's book carrying olive branches. Although " Prime Minister Konoye's government brought Japan into the Axis, sanctioned the July 1941 invasion of French Indo-China, and went along with the supreme command's proposal, two months later, to declare war on the U.S., "nothing . . . was further removed from Konoye's mind than to engage upon war with the British Empire or the United States." Foreign Minister Shigemitsu, who signed the Japanese surrender, was "a man of confirmed liberal views, consistently opposed to any policy...
...Nobler Ideal. Some of the whitewash seems a little thick. But the timidity of Japanese statesmen who wanted peace is explained, in part at least, by the army's ferocity in assassinating its enemies in the government, as well as by its success in dissolving any cabinet that opposed its views. Even after the fall of Okinawa, the supreme command was determined to fight on, ignoring frantic Japanese diplomatic moves to negotiate a peace through Russia's good offices...