Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urbane, scholarly New Yorker, Armstrong joined Foreign Affairs at its founding in 1922 and served as its editor from 1928 until his retirement two years ago. Although the circulation of his quarterly has never exceeded 73,000, it has long been a prestigious forum reflecting the viewpoints of statesmen and political commentators around the world. Foreign Affairs published articles by heads of governments as well as their critics, and in its 1947 article by "X" (State Department Planner George F. Kennan) presented the first outline of U.S. policy in the coming cold...
Many lawyers take only a mechanistic view of law, Fisher said. "Many act more like guns for hire than statesmen or wise human beings," he commented...
There are some good reasons, of course, for the U.S. Government's behavior. First, the diplomatic action right now is with the Communist nations. Hence the meetings and all those handshakes and smiles. Also, the character of Japan has for the moment stymied this country's top statesmen. Japan has not yet conceived a complete global policy. Thus those marvelous philosophical evenings mulling over the condition and future of civilization, which Kissinger found so warming in Peking, cannot be had in Tokyo. When Washington's international planners have turned to Europe, they have found up until fairly...
More and more statesmen, and even some farm leaders, want to turn Washington's agricultural effort away from a wasteful and expensive campaign to limit production, and toward the goal of allowing the nation to realize its full bounty. They have been rebuffed and delayed largely by politics, both at home and abroad. The time finally seems to have arrived when the bulk of American farmers are well enough off financially to make the change without having to endure undue jolts, and when foreign customers are eager to buy more of America's agricultural wealth than ever before...
Several scholars and statesmen have interpreted Johnson as a tragic figure whose good intentions were foiled by historical forces. Others have portrayed him as "the prarie boy from Texas who realized the American crisis better than urbanologists...