Word: statesmanly
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Many Britons are convinced, however, that the efforts made so far are nothing but "whitewash on the sepulcher," as the left-wing weekly New Statesman put it-that Northern Ireland, in short, cannot survive in its present form. To be sure, the question was whether the week's political moves were too little and too late. The proposals for tripartite prime-ministerial talks for the all-Ulster round-table conference and for the two-day debate in Commons-or even Faulkner's hint at week's end of other concessions-might not be in time to reverse...
...elegant White House dinner held on Labor Day last year, the President of the United States rose to offer a toast. Lifting his champagne glass in the direction of the rumpled patriarch seated to his right, Richard Nixon paid tribute to "a distinguished labor statesman, a man who stands for the best in free labor and for the best of America." Flushed with presidential praise, George Meany, leader of the giant, 13.5 million-member A.F.L.-C.I.O., responded with words of glowing admiration for Nixon as a leader "dedicated to the same ideal and the same end" as U.S. labor...
Problems at Home. The domestic political impact of Nixon's great adventure abroad was still far from clear. Certainly the Democrats were now on the defensive about the war issue; they faced the possibility that Nixon in 1972 will have the brightened aura of a world statesman and peacemaker. Potential Democratic candidates for the presidency could only applaud Nixon's coup. The quixotic candidacy of Republican Congressman Pete McCloskey, centered so completely upon the war, looked even more forlorn...
...When the U.S. entered the war, Pound delivered a series of rambling and vaguely anti-American diatribes on Radio Roma. According to Mary, he did not really intend to betray his country but to persuade it with right reason. He saw himself as a Confucian scholar-statesman, and plastered the town of Rapallo with moralistic slogans: HONESTY IS THE TREASURE OF STATES. His daughter sees him as a lone wolf howling in a world gone...
More likely, however, the trip is intended to upgrade the Agnew image. After his abrasive appearances on the U.S. banquet circuit, distance may lend Agnew the aura of an American statesman. Then, too, there is not much for Agnew to do at home just now. Summer months are slim ones on the political fund-raising circuit...