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...opportunities. The trip also served the useful purpose of gaining added prestige for Kubitschek, and giving Brazilians a chance to catch their breath and reflect on what manner of man they had chosen. Even his supporters are likely to find him something of a novelty. Brazil has had generals, statesmen and intellectuals for Presidents, but never before a businessman type like Juscelino Kubitschek...
...some extent, NATO is a victim of its own success. Statesmen, who are politicians when they get back home, have found it all too easy to believe that their security is the result, not of their own strength but of a change in Russian hearts. "The threat of war is diminishing." they chant...
...front. Gruenther not only understands, but often startles ministers by reciting production figures of their own countries that they do not know themselves, amazes politicians by quoting election figures down to the tenth of a percentage point. As a result, he has won an admiration among European statesmen that borders on adulation. Admits one French news paper: a commander "less flexible and less informed on European politics-the short period of command by General Ridgway shows this-would have brought great peril not only to the military organization but the Atlantic alliance itself." Said able NATO Secretary-General Lord Ismay...
...lecturer; in Wootton-by-Woodstock, England. Famed Pundit Steed joined the Times in 1896, served as foreign correspondent in European capitals, was named editor by eccentric Press Tycoon Lord Northcliffe, in an effort to boost the paper's sagging influence. A respected confidant and adviser of world statesmen. Steed predicted the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was among the first to warn of the menace of Hitler's Germany, acted as chief BBC broadcaster on world affairs during World...
Hope Springs Eternal. Next day the King desperately recalled one of the nation's elder statesmen, ex-Premier Ibrahim Hashim, 67, to head a "caretaker" government, and promised an election within four months to decide whether to join the Baghdad pact. Then the King boarded his personal plane, circled over his capital city of Amman to watch the effect. Mobs continued marching through the streets, and by now professional porters were distributing stones from baskets on their backs. But by week's end, the furor had abated, especially after the King freed 1,000 arrested rioters. The toll...