Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government has not always solved these problems, or even attacked them wisely. There are indications that this time, at last, it may succeed. For our statesmen, with a commendable humility which TIME does not share, now recognize the shortcomings of their own education and are calling on the men of science for help. It is the most hopeful sign of our times that the men of science and good will are being given a voice in international affairs...
Somehow the United Nations (and defeated countries who aspire to join later) must try to adopt realistic budgets, stabilize prices and wages, bring exports & imports into reasonable balance-all factors affecting the purchasing power of currency. If they succeed, the Fund can help them. If they fail, the Fund offers no remedy, and Tory M.P. Oliver Lyttelton's quip will hold true: "It is not the least good putting up a mosquito net to try to keep out a charge of wild elephants...
...almost a total stranger to the complexities of international affairs. Four years ago only a handful of Canadians had even heard his name. Now, in the opinion of many a careful appraiser of politics, he was Canada's No. 2 man-the man most likely to succeed Prime Minister King on an interim basis, until the Liberal Party could get around to electing a younger, permanent leader...
...Canada's surprise, he was drafted into politics in December 1941 as Mr. King's choice to succeed the late Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe. At his first press conference, Minister St. Laurent told reporters: "I know nothing at all about politics." In his first election campaign, he proved it by telling his ultra-isolationist constituents in Quebec East that he would vote for conscription. But he was elected with a whopping majority. He scored another tremendous victory in last June's election...
Canadians, said Brebner, should not be so intolerant of change and "intellectual and esthetic eccentricity." The countries which succeed best in keeping their ablest citizens at home are "those which have given free scope to their poets, artists, philosophers, scholars, inventors; adventurers, and other rebels, critics and innovators. . . . Canadians would do well to make special efforts to understand any freakish compatriot who seems to be receiving more attention abroad than at home...