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...decision was made at the Top Level, that summit where sportsmen, publishers, industrialists, statesmen and such labor leaders as George Meany meet in their mutual concern for the public welfare. The President himself was there, covering the story for Sports Illustrated...
Avalanches of Change. And so it is. In the flux of history, the most earnest pronouncements of statesmen tend to be ephemeral. The archives of nations are stuffed with decrees, declarations, edicts, enunciations, protocols and pronounce ments that were meant to resound for decades but lasted only for weeks or months. Yet the Monroe Doctrine lives on in the hearts and minds of Americans-even though most of them have only the foggiest notion of what it says and means...
...international viewpoints. A world observer of considerable vision himself-"A people has disappeared," he wrote in his 1933 book, Hitlers Reich, at a time when most of the world still considered the Nazi leader a harmless crackpot-Armstrong has yielded the floor to the world's thought molders, statesmen and diplomats...
...Gaulle's strength is that, almost alone among W7estern statesmen, he has his own firm, lucid ideas about the future of the West-however disturbing these may sometimes be to his allies-and has no hesitation about pushing them. He is deeply imbued with a sense of history (see box). And at 71, he is a man of amazing diligence. Said one admiring German official: "The key to De Gaulle is evident in his speeches in German. He doesn't speak it really well, but he has a perfectly aspirated //. For a Frenchman, that's the toughest...
...While the Eurocrats go hammer and tongs at the task of welding the new Europe (see WORLD BUSINESS), the Commonwealth still must make the emotional and intellectual adjustments that come harder than economic concessions. As they planned for a new round of negotiations, starting next month, most Common Market statesmen sympathetically acknowledged the obstacles in the way of British membership. Shrugged one diplomat in Brussels last week: "There will be tough moments ahead." He added: "But it will be. It will...