Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present system of nominations, however, one can expect a full blitz of winning Rockefeller smiles and dark "Nixon can't win" statements. Rockefeller has shown as governor that he can indeed courageously undertake necessary but momentarily unpopular actions. He has shown genuine leadership. Such leadership would be very welcome relief from the usual campaign inanities, and restore much of the lustre Rockefeller has lost behind his flashing smile...
Within this entity, the leadership--economic and, in time, political--can fall only to France or Germany. Here enters the German problem for France. The French can manage Western Germany, for the common fear of Germany would cast the smaller powers on France's side in a contest for primacy. And, through a European block, Germany would have a large market for her goods and the ability to make her weight felt in the world. Thus, a marriage de convenance could be effected between Paris and Bonn...
...need not have turned out that way. After World War II, Britain had the chance, even the open invitation of the weakened nations across the Channel, to join and assume the leadership of a new united Europe. Britain refused, though Winston Churchill's eloquence rang in the halls of the Council of Europe on behalf of the ideal. Britain's explanation for staying out has always been the theory of the three overlapping circles of British policy. One circle is Britain and its Commonwealth; another is Britain and the U.S.; a third, Britain and Europe. Of these three...
...Abraham) M. (for Michael) Rosenthal, 37, the New York Times''s resident staffer in Warsaw. The Communist Polish government did not even pretend that Rosenthal had been misreporting. Rather, it accused him of having "probed too deeply into the affairs concerning the Communist Party and its leadership...
...literature, films and art. He described in detail both the chilly welcome given to visiting Premier Nikita Khrushchev in July and the tumultuous greeting awarded U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon a week later. A fortnight ago, Rosenthal described Polish Communist Party Leader Gomulka as a "moody, irascible" man whose "leadership has created rifts that could grow." The immediate cause for last week's expulsion appeared to be a story that the Polish government, getting even tougher, had brought a former Stalinist from diplomatic exile for a high army post...