Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's literate, left-wing New Statesman and Nation, which is apt to make rude noises at all critics of Socialism (particularly if the critics are American), has discovered that in Socialist Britain the good old manners have gone to hell. A New Statesman essayist who sounded just a little like a learned Colonel Blimp charted the decline & fall of civility in Britain...
...that Herbert Clark Hoover's 75th birthday last week should become something of an occasion. A controversial figure, Herbert Hoover, for many U.S. citizens, was still the symbol of inaction in a great national emergency and thus a symbol of the first Depression. For many others, the elder statesman who, in his 703 had labored long to reorganize sprawling U.S. Government departments, was a living expression of such old-fashioned virtues as simplicity, sanity and thrift. For his birthday, congratulatory messages from Congress, U.S. boys' clubs and European foreign offices poured in to his old home at Palo...
...stations, that U.S. weapons and money might be dissipated in driblets from Greenland to Greece. There was a nagging fear that ECA might help keep Europe convalescent but never put it back on its feet. There was also a petulant feeling that Europe should get off its hunkers. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch seemed to share this mood. Back from a quick trip to Europe, he was asked whether Europe might help itself more if the U.S. helped it less. "There's a heap of sense in that," he said...
Like many another vacationing statesman, Winston Churchill was looking for peace & quiet. He thought he had found it last week in Gardone, on Lake Garda in north Italy. Gardone's Marxist mayor greeted him with a bunch of gladioli; Churchill replied with the opinion that Trieste should be returned to Italy...
...party at Buckingham Palace. In a busy week, he also found time to lend his approval to the engagement of his nephew, 26-year-old George Henry Hubert Lascelles, seventh Earl of Harewood, to dark-haired, Austrian-born Pianist Marion Stein, 22. Young Harewood, opera critic for the New Statesman and Nation and a potential heir to the throne (eleventh in line), was so far from kingship that nobody worried much about his marrying a com moner. Last week Miss Stein, a gypsy-faced, beauty whose father works for Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd., music publishers, was meeting the family...