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...Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS) was also prepared to visit, was assured a warmer welcome than could have been possible for Anthony Eden. And at week's end came hints of a caller whose appearance would do more for the Western alliance than a regiment of bustling, brief-cased statesmen. To Britain's Queen Elizabeth went overtures for a state visit, possibly in October. If the Queen is agreeable, a formal invitation will follow...
...world entered 1956 with a full complement of great men: national leaders, statesmen, philosophers, artists and scientists, many of whom, pursuing their legitimate vocations, would be remembered among the great names of the epoch. But the man who put his stamp on this particular year?the Man of the Year?was not on the roster of the world's great when the year began. Nor could anyone have guessed his identity, even when the year had run four-fifths of its course. Yet by year's end, this man was seen to have shaken history's greatest despotism...
...their hot pursuit of headlinemakers, TV's three major news-panel shows have grown so competitive that they are forcing statesmen to new stratagems of diplomacy. When Moderator Oliver Presbrey of ABC's Press Conference began thanking Britain's Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell for having "chosen" to appear in a filmed edition of the show, Gaitskell broke in to ask that he change that to "accepted" the invitation. This phrasing would square him with a future host, CBS's Face the Nation, explained Gaitskell, who added discreetly that he already had promised NBC's Meet...
...time widespread private fears of war had risen to the headlines, and to the public consciousness, the statesmen were beginning to feel that they had affairs under control. Ben-Gurion hastily reversed his talk of the victory's spoils, agreed to withdraw from Sinai. The Anglo-French hastened to comply with the null plea for an early and easy take-over in Suez by a U.N. police force of soldiers from the small powers. The Middle East crisis became a race between the U.N.-trying for a peace before the Russians could intervene-and the Russians, hastening to raise...
...time last week, responsible statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic feared that war was in the making. Messages of alarm shot between Washington, London, Paris and Tel Aviv. U.S. armed forces were alerted-not because attack was believed imminent, but in case it was. Out of their mutual concern, the Western alliance, rent by the Anglo-French invasion of Egypt, was put back together again. The price: an incomplete victory in Egypt...