Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quick clap of editorial thunder, Bertie McCormick answered them: "This is tantamount to a request that we try to glamorize the doings of the U.N. . . . Our reporters who cover the meetings of U.N., or Congress, or the legislature are expected to know the difference between windbags, crooks and statesmen, and to treat them accordingly in all news dispatches ... So long ... as U.N. remains a fraud on the hopes of many decent people, it will be treated...
That was June 1939, and one of the real differences between then and now is that in 1939, while the people of Europe made the most of the precious days of peace, the U.S. and the world were primarily interested in what Europe's statesmen were thinking, planning and doing. Today the U.S. and the world are more interested in what the people of Western Europe are thinking. What the Italian voters do in their April 18 elections, for instance, is far more important than almost anything a Western European statesman might do at this time...
Unfortunately, the mounting pressure of world events forced us to postpone the forum indefinitely. As things shaped up, statesmen we had invited to speak at the forum found that they could not leave their posts, either in the U.S., Latin America, or Europe. And the month of April, obviously, was going to be a time of further crisis...
...flavor of American life. Even more helpful are the odd anecdotes scattered through it, possessing the sort of owlish, stubborn humor that comes from wringing a subject dry and then wringing it some more. "In late years," says Mencken, "it is me has even got support from eminent statesmen. When, just before Roosevelt II's inauguration day in 1933, the first New Deal martyr, the Hon. Anton J. Cermak, was shot ... he turned to Roosevelt and said, 'I'm glad it was me instead of you,' and when, in March 1946, the Right Hon. Winston Churchill...
Within the hour, Don Vicente had his toothpick-thin cook, La Maga (The Wizard), at work. By nightfall, he had sent a ten-liter container by air to Gilberto Bosques, Mexican ambassador in Lisbon, with instructions on how to give a mole banquet for leading Portuguese statesmen. Free samples also went to restaurants and hotels in the big cities of the world. Said Don Vicente: "No one who eats mole can think of war and death...