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Despite the grandeur of the funeral, the mourners 'who thronged the Vatican this week-the foreign statesmen as well as the crowds of Romans who had cheered him for years as he rode through his city -knew the simplicity and the intelligent humanity that had been present beneath the papal pomp. And they would scarcely agree with his humble self-assessment of "failures" and "insufficiency." Men of all faiths agreed that Pius XII had been a great Pope...
...Spanish Americans, says Weigel, "are extremely intelligent as a group, quick in their perceptions and brilliant in their conceptions." The Latino also tends to combine the romantic loftiness of Don Quixote with the earthy unscrupulousness of Sancho Panza. He has genius for wholehearted friendship, and this is what U.S. statesmen should appeal to. But "on the level of mundane existence he is prone to be a refined or crude sensualist. He needs material things for life, but he is not squeamish how they are to be acquired. Since leisure, high speculation and ecstacy mean so much...
...Dulles seminar was one of several such gatherings that Robert R. Bowie, Director of the Center, hopes to hold during the year. Distinguished statesmen will be invited to address the Fellows of the Center informally, and news of neither their visits nor their talks will be made public...
...Editorial Board demands only that its candidates be versatile, opinionated and articulate. From its influential columns you can subtly manipulate the opinions of the paper's 10,000 readers, while, unsuspecting, they eat their cold cereal. Nor is this all, for when the Editorial Board frowns theatres close, statesmen tumble, and deans resign...
Flying into the U.S. from the far ends of the earth, a flock of foreign statesmen last week demonstrated that the roads which once led to imperial Rome and London now converge on Washington. Unlike their counterparts in the days of the Caesars and the Gladstones, they came not as satraps but as friends. But each of these ambassadors to the new Rome had a plea or a complaint. Items...