Word: figurehead
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...gaudy revolutionary career in Britain, France, Russia, China and Indo-China. Today, Ho Chi Minh is a great figurehead whose prestige as a "liberator" still stands high, even outside the areas he controls. But his star in the Communist firmament has waned. His health is poor (tuberculosis). He has traveled too far, and seen too much, and talked to too many people to have the rigidly closed type of mind required of a top party militant in time of war. He is one of those international Communist bosses-France's Maurice Thorez is another-who retain titular leadership mainly...
Died. Dr. Victor Manuel Román y Reyes, 77, mild-mannered, figurehead President of Nicaragua since 1947, uncle and loyal retainer of strong-arm Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza; after an operation for cancer; in Philadelphia...
...seeming contradiction between the gentle Attlee and the frequently ungentle Labor Party could not be explained by brushing Attlee off as a figurehead. In actual power over party decisions, quiet, little (5 ft. 7½ in., 140 Ibs.) Clem Attlee stood head & shoulders above his fellow Laborite leaders. This was true even though he lacked Aneurin Bevan's fiery eloquence, Herbert Morrison's parliamentary skill, Sir Stafford Cripps's brilliance and Ernest Bevin's command of the warm loyalty of millions of unionists. What Attlee did have was political balance and a sense of timing. These...