Word: statesmanly
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...interview was aired last week, listeners had the eerie impression that they were hearing some ugly echo of the past. Degrelle, now 65, proved himself to be still a dedicated fascist. He praised Hitler as the greatest statesman of his age. "No feelings of regret at all?" asked the interviewer after he had quizzed Degrelle about his wartime experiences. Replied Degrelle: "I am only sorry that I didn't succeed, but if I had the chance I would do it all again but much more forcefully...
...invited to appear on network television, asked his political preferences, interviewed sympathetically by newspaper reporters and given a respectful hearing by a Senate subcommittee. By the time' he makes his move to take over the Teamsters again, he will doubtless come on as some sort of humanitarian labor statesman...
...conquest of lands beyond the seas. Our desires are clear of the thought of gain. The hope of a peace based upon national tolerance has led us to take up arms against that government which wills no peace and knows no tolerance. Is there now one statesman so unwise as to say we lack ideals, that our only though is of gain while the whole world bleeds...
...defender was René Dubos, distinguished Rockefeller University microbiologist, elder statesman of science and author (A God Within, So Human an Animal). In a major address entitled "Humanizing the Earth," Dubos, 71, disputed one of the fashionable credos of contemporary environmentalists: that any human interference with nature is in itself undesirable. In other words, Dubos flatly disagreed with Barry Commoner's so-called fourth law of ecology: "Nature knows best." On the contrary, Dubos insisted, nature does not always know best. It is, in fact, often "shortsighted." To prove his point, he cited not only such major natural calamities...
Died. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, 94, India's elder statesman and a principal lieutenant of Mohandas Gandhi during their country's struggle for independence; in Madras, India. A Brahman lawyer who joined Gandhi in 1919, "Rajaji" served his mentor as publisher and administrative aide. His leadership in passive resistance against the British led to frequent jail terms. Though his prophetic support for a separate Moslem state-which became Pakistan-caused a break with Gandhi in 1942, he later rejoined his old ally and in 1948 became India's first native-born Governor-General. Long a conservative and an ardent...