Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fellow statesmen, De Gaulle found few more than passable. Adenauer wins his praise. So does Nixon - as a "steady personality" - in a passage obviously informed by hindsight. Eisenhower appears almost as timid and bumbling as Britain's Macmillan during the 1960 summit confrontation with Khrushchev; to hear De Gaulle tell it, only his own resolution prevent ed the Allies from acceding to Soviet demands on Berlin...
...clearly comfortable ir his new role. Ever since he wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Metternich, he has admired statesmen who combined a cul tivated life-style with the shrewd exercise of diplomacy. Kissinger is trying to revive some of the bygone elegance of public life; grimness is for the ideologues and zealots who haven't made the world such a troubled place to live...
Probably the most powerful reason for any of the four nations to vote yes is a negative one: the prospect of isolation and economic decline if they remain outside the Common Market. But despite the euphoric words spoken in Brussels last week, it is clear that several statesmen will have to do some persuasive marketing of arguments at home in the next few months if the Six are indeed to become...
That assessment represents a rare victory of reality over mythology. For decades, American statesmen and financiers have viewed devaluation as an unthinkable national humiliation and a devastating blow to the non-Communist world's financial system, which uses the dollar as the central trading currency. In fact, the dollar has long been overvalued, partly for reasons that reflect credit rather than blame on the U.S. American aid helped to revive Europe's war-shattered economies and create a mighty industrial power in Japan. Those actions reduced the U.S.'s dominance of world business, which the dollar...
...other two were both U.S. Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 for the Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War, and Woodrow Wilson in 1919 for helping to establish the League of Nations. Other statesmen have won, but not while in office...