Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compare with the sufferings borne by and outrages practiced among the people of the South following Appomattox . . . Let us not destroy the forum in which Calhoun thundered. Let us not wipe out this particular place where Daniel Webster became known to history as one of the greatest orators and statesman of all time...
Although last year's United Nations resolution demanded that Jerusalem be made an international city, the Israelis pointedly chose it for the opening ceremony of their newly elected Constituent Assembly. Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Zionism's elder statesman, last week solemnly opened the Assembly. When the band struck up Hatikvah (the Israeli national anthem) during the ceremonies, the tired old (74) man seemed off in a dream; a military aide had to nudge him before he came to life again. Facing the Assembly, he wept. Said he: "It is our people that once gave the whole world a spiritual...
...cool, unruffled speaker with a shy, dry wit and an impressive talent for fashioning an air-tight argument, Jessup was a welcome change from the windy speechifying of ailing Delegate Warren Austin and the arm-pumping forensics of Texas' minor statesman, Tom Connally. He soon began to carry more & more of the U.S. load: the debates over Palestine and Indonesia, the showdown last fall on Berlin. After Lawyer Jessup had demolished Lawyer Vishinsky in the Berlin debate with a damning, well-documented indictment of Russian policy (TIME, Oct. 18, 1948), one Western European delegate commented admiringly: "That...
...under the impression, which was shared by a great many others, that I had a clear call to duty. But last November it turned out to be some other kind of noise. Instead ... I have been graduated at a comparatively early age to the role of elder statesman, which someone has aptly defined as a politician who is no longer a candidate for office...
Died. Count Nobuaki Makino, 88, Japan's liberal elder statesman and longtime adviser (Keeper of the Privy Seal, 1925-35) to Emperor Hirohito; in Tanaka, Japan. Forced out by the militarists, he made a comeback after V-J day, exerting potent political influence through his son-in-law Premier Yoshida...