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...cope with the complexities of foreign relations with either dramatic new policies or coups of face-to-face negotiation. A policy, he says, is "a galaxy of utterly complicated factors," not something that suddenly pops out of somebody's head. As for face-to-face encounters between world statesmen: "Summit diplomacy is to be approached with the wariness with which a prudent physician prescribes a habit-forming drug." He thinks that Presidents should stay away from summits, leave negotiating to the Secretary of State-and that the Secretary should leave it, as much as possible, to ambassadors...
...elder statesmen agree that in winning the greatest satisfaction comes from beating the best. They realize that a fine Harvard team is at its best with Mr. Ravenel at the controls. That's why Yale's 17 seniors would like to see Ravenel recovered from his early knee injury on Saturday," the press release added...
...country, Aron's reputation is based largely on his frequent magazine articles and on the two columns of political commentary he writes each week for the Paris newspaper Le Figaro. Aron's newspaper readership is estimated at half a million. His influence among French intellectuals and statesmen is comparable to that of Walter Lippman in America...
Nixon and Lodge are experienced statesmen who are superbly equipped to uphold America's position in the world. All other issues are of secondary importance...
...times, British statesmen, like British mountaineers, seem driven to climb the summit for no better reason than because it's there. This thought struck Germany's Chancellor Adenauer last week as Prime Minister Macmillan, fresh from leading the U.N. Assembly battle against a rampageous Nikita Khrushchev, briskly informed Britain's Tories: "We must try to get back to the mood of last spring. Negotiations on Berlin and Germany must be resumed...