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...Ballets Africains, which offered only one disappointment-the girls wore brassieres. For all the festive folderol, Kenyans were less than delirious-they are waiting for the jam in jamhuri. A year of independence has brought more problems than prosperity. Kenyatta remains one of Black Africa's more responsible statesmen, and he retains some ties with the West-in one case literally: Kenya's latest postage stamp shows Jomo wearing his old school tie, that of the London School of Economics...
...popular image of Dag Hammarskjold has-changed more in the three years since his fatal plane crash than that of most statesmen changes in generations; and the cause is a posthumously published "spiritual diary" that he kept for thirty-six years, from the age of twenty until a few weeks before his death. Although Hammarskjold never showed this record to anyone, he decided sometime in the 1950's to leave it behind as "the only true 'profile'" of his personality...
...said that after 20 years he would be prime minister. I think that he had a sick imagination-at least at that time I already considered him to be not quite normal-not always, but at times. He was very much interested, exceedingly so, in autobiographical works of outstanding statesmen of the United States and others. I think that he compared himself to these people whose autobiographies he read. That seems strange to me, because it is necessary to have an education in order to achieve success of that kind...
...Churchill urged the Western world to close ranks again in the face of a threat to peace as formidable as any it had yet seen: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." Duty Done. One of the few statesmen to achieve undisputed immortality in his lifetime, Sir Winston is perhaps the only world leader who has ever written history as memorably as he made it. His chronicles of the First and Second World Wars, and the West's misspent years between, are without parallel either as history...
...people working, there was one who had retired at 45, sometimes with full pay. It was wonderful. The people didn't worry because they had all those benefits. The government didn't worry about how much it was all costing because the people were not worrying. And statesmen in other lands didn't worry much about that nice, prosperous, Swiss-style country because there were other things to worry about...