Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Bernadotte's body was transferred to a plane; after stopping in Rome and Paris, where statesmen paid tribute to him, he was flown home...
...Beirut, sober-sided Stephen Penrose expects to soft-pedal his Arab views. (His first act last week: a cable for money in behalf of 70 Palestinian students whose funds had been cut off.) He hopes to make A.U.B., already famed for the statesmen and doctors among its 15,000 alumni, also a center for technical education...
...diplomacy had been wiser. Two cardinal errors were the Immigration Act of 1924, excluding Japanese, and the insistence on naval limitation. The first discredited the liberal policy that had been making headway in Japan; the second "rendered the militarists desperate." Among the results were assassinations of liberal statesmen in Tokyo and deliberate attacks on Americans in China, including the sinking of the river gunboat Panay in 1937. That was also the year that the Japanese navy laid down, in secret, the hulls of the Yamato and Musashi, 63,700-ton battleships. By 1941 the Japanese navy was "more powerful than...
...city; it peered and pried everywhere, and its somewhat watery gaze was often unflattering. Good-looking women turned into witches and dapper men became unshaven bums. Under TV's merciless, close-up stare, the demagogues and players-to-the-gallery did not always succeed in looking like statesmen. Besides exposing the politicians' worst facial expressions, the camera caught occasional telltale traces of boredom, insincerity and petulance...
...International Family." The party was part of a fortnight-long World Assembly of Frank Buchman's ten-year-old Moral Re-Armament movement, and it clicked smoothly along in the well-oiled M.R.A. manner. Statesmen and ex-statesmen from 25 nations (including Italy, Germany and Japan) were there. The cablegram that invited them had been signed by some 51 Congressmen from 40 states (including Senators Barkley, Brewster and Bridges). On the local invitation committee were California's Governor Warren, Los Angeles' Mayor Fletcher Bowron, the University of California's President Robert Sproul, Hollywood's Jimmy...