Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everything the President said; as usual, there were some blurred edges on some of his thoughts and sentences. But it was a week in which almost everyone, including most of Ike's severest critics, agreed that he was once again an undisputed leader, diplomatic as well as military. Statesmen and pundits in the world's capitals sensed this as well...
Sometimes it seems as if the Western democracies, which have to make up their minds in public, are kept united only by a steady traffic in airborne statesmen. Last week Europe's airspace was crowded with the comings and goings of worried diplomats. Of them all, none was so busy as Britain's indefatigable Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who in the space of three weeks had visited Moscow, Paris and Bonn, and this week was scheduled to go to Washington and Ottawa as well...
...time of ballads rather than newspapers, and of myths rather than statistics. In London's squalid streets magnificence belonged alone to the church and state, and genius lived in the persons of the statesmen-Sir Philip Sidney, Cecil and Raleigh-as much as in Shakespeare, who celebrated the glory of Elizabeth's monarchy. It was also a time of all-embracing religious conflict; when religion then walked not only the hairline of individual faith but the tightrope of policy. Catholic and Protestant were "in a state of mind near insanity" over the tortures they inflicted on each other...
...rising influence does not seem to have warmed the hearts of de Gaulle or Adenauer, it is fortunate that he has begun to gather the reins of Western leadership at a time when, as The Times of London put it, "age and sickness have overtaken America's leading statesmen...
Beneath the impulsive language, the full outline of the Russian design could be plainly seen, and for Russian purposes it had been adroitly conceived. Moscow has divided its German policy into two categories. One is directed at the statesmen of the U.S., Britain and France, the other to the people of West Germany. For each audience, Khrushchev had an unmistakable message...