Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...constitution to be written next fall will make a point of separating church and state. Ben-Gurion and other leaders rarely turn up at synagogues. Jews are not supposed to travel in vehicles on the Sabbath but they do today in Israel. Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok, a brisk, urbane statesman, did not even wait for a reporter to ask him about it. Said Shertok: "And if you're going to ask whether the trains and buses are going to run on the Sabbath, I can tell you right now-they...
...learn-and how quickly. The civil service, the press, the schools are in no shape to do the job. Nehru is the thin link between the 300,000,000 people and their government. Recently, Nehru took a trip to Madras province which typified the work of a unique statesman in shaping a new nation. He traveled 3,500 miles by plane, made twelve ex tempore speeches and 18 public appearances, showed himself to 1,000,000 people. He displayed wild impatience, touching humility, arrogance, humor, vast learning and vast interests. His remarks touched on public morals, and public manners, stone...
...Headquarters Needed. Louis St. Laurent was a topnotch Quebec lawyer and political novice when he was picked by Mr. King in 1941 for the Justice Ministry. His dignity, sincerity and all-round ability soon won him a national reputation as a statesman...
Thank you for printing, in your admirable Religion section, the New Statesman and Nation's attack on us. It is a choice example of the odd logic of so many of the assailants of our "irrelevant" doctrine and our "decaying" church. "Why should anybody go to church," asks Editor Kingsley Martin [TIME, July 19], "and listen to the Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made for use?" Why, he asks, listen to the greatest compendium of moral law ever issued, in a time of singular moral lawlessness? In other words, why should anybody...
Basil Kingsley Martin, the cheerfully scolding editor of Britain's weekly New Statesman and Nation, looks like a nonconformist minister-which his father was. In his column last fortnight, he let fly at one of his favorite targets-the Church...