Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work at Bogota, there will be top-flight statesmen on the job. Crisis-harried George Marshall will head the U.S. delegation, with Cabinet-rank support from Commerce Secretary Averell Harriman, Treasury Secretary John Snyder. Export-Import Bank Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. will be there, and John J. McCloy, World Bank president, though not a delegate, plans to be on hand. The diplomatic backfield will be sparked by Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs Norman Armour...
...hastily marshalled their lobbies and actively joined the howling chorus against partition. In a few days Representative Austin announced to the U.N. that the United States would not support partition by force. However important the economic and strategic motives for this complete about face may seem to American statesmen, they do not, in any way, justify such a complete subjugation of morals to expediency...
...damage a Palestine debacle would do to the United Nations. A speedy, well-policed partition would enhance its prestige immeasurably, while a week policy will turn the U.N. into little more than a watery organization for completely sovereign nations. The United Nations is on the block today, but the statesmen still refuse to enforce partition. They pray for a last minute reconciliation between Jews and Arabs. Reconciliation is hopeless...
Pegler, the Enquirer complained, had noted U.S. efforts to contain Russia and had "depicted them all as incitements to war." A fine ferret of union graft and a "castigator of crooners," said the Enquirer, Peg "is not among the world's most noted statesmen. . . . His competence in matters of foreign policy, in other words, is scarcely comparable to that of Secretary Marshall [or] Senator Vandenberg...
Winchell took his scolding without a word. Not so Pegler, who was still muttering last week. "The Enquirer may not know," said Peg in self-defense, "that, as a young reporter, I saw many statesmen, diplomats and soldiers in Europe. I have seen most of them since...