Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...monarchs and in favor of democracy. It began in Paris and spread south to Italy and east to Poland. Crowds gathered in major European cities, including Berlin, Prague, Budapest and Vienna demanding an end to the regimes imposed on them three decades earlier by the victorious kings, emperors and statesmen in the great European war that Napoleon Bonaparte unleashed...
...longer hypothetical "German question" than that. Neither the population nor the size of a united Germany would necessarily result in instability; it is not as though the two countries would attain critical mass if they were fused. Rather, the X factor in the debate, largely unmentionable among statesmen but deeply felt among their constituents, concerns the crimes and punishment of the German nation. Many Europeans, including most Soviets, would prefer to let the next generation, or even the one after that, test fully the proposition that 70 years of German expansionism, culminating in the horrors of Hitler, was an aberration...
Meselson, whom Biochemistry Department Chair Steven C. Harrison called "one of the most outstanding scientist-statesmen in the last few decades," said ethical concerns also played a role in his work...
Dean Acheson compared the task of his fellow statesmen at the end of World War II to the one described in the first chapter of the Bible. "That was to create a world out of chaos; ours, to create half a world, a free half, out of the same material." The genesis that is now at hand may be just as formidable, because it involves transcending not chaos but a rigid order...
...dangerous notion that the intifadeh must be defeated rather than calmed transcends Israel's current political crisis. True statesmen would seek victory for everyone...