Word: statesmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Salami Slicing. Many statesmen also are less worried at the prospect of outright conflict than by the systematic program to freeze the Allies out of the city by peaceful means. West German officials, in particular, argue that the U.S. too readily accedes to Moscow's systematic slicing away at its rights-"salami tactics," as diplomats call it. In fact, when Washington determinedly resists Russian pressure to revise or eliminate its rights, as it did last February in riding out Soviet harassment in the Berlin air corridors, Moscow usually backs down...
...Peter in 1846. Pius IX started out as one of the most liberal-minded Popes in centuries. He granted amnesty to political prisoners jailed during the reign of his predecessor, tried to clean up the corrupt, sluggish government of the Papal States. To the surprise of Europe's statesmen, he even seemed sympathetic to the ideals of Italian nationalism, and for a while worked actively to unite Italy's assortment of kingdoms and principalities into a federation...
...wrote in a column that was killed by Hearst. "I wasn't shocked, I wasn't horrified, and I believe that most of those who said they were were liars." Pegler preferred the late Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo to most of the world's statesmen: "Trujillo is much more sensible, practical and helpful to his people than Roosevelt. Truman or Eisenhower has been to ours...
...French-German reconciliation as dem onstrated by De Gaulle and Adenauer last week was the necessary first step on the way to European unity. Their achievement places the two statesmen next to their predecessors, Briand and Stresemann, but the "New Europe" will grow beyond her two grand...
...except when a drastic upset in the Continental balance of power made it necessary to intervene. This policy remained in force virtually until yesterday. For a dozen years, Labor and Conservative governments consistently cold-shouldered the supranational institutions that paved the way for the Common Market. To many European statesmen...