Word: statesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...listens and in visibly adjusts. For Robert Kennedy, this season has been especially bleak because of the unfavorable and boring publicity surrounding the Manchester book controversy. All in all, an excellent moment for a selective tour of Western European capitals-to pick up some information, be cooed at by statesmen, oohed at by everyman, and make a few headlines at home having nothing to do with that book. Which is exactly what happened...
...dinner of the 1967 social season was an old-fashioned love feast, and the hyperbole was as calorie-laden as the chocolate souffle. Noting that his three guests of honor had "each suffered the venomous abuse that often attends public life," Lyndon Johnson defended them as "adventurers, pioneers and statesmen who have blazed the trail of human dignity." Replying in kind, Vice President Hubert Humphrey likened Johnson to Franklin Roosevelt, House Speaker John McCormack toasted him as "a man bigger than life," and Chief Justice Earl Warren psalmed the joys of fellowship. "Behold," proclaimed Republican Warren, "how good and pleasant...
Born in Paris, reared in New York and Boston, and by his mid-20s a veteran of diplomatic service in World War I Europe, Christian Herter was equipped as few other statesmen to revivify the crumbling Atlantic Alliance. Yet when he succeeded John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State in 1959, his reward was frustration...
...19th century, so vast was the empire of Queen Victoria and so prestigious her name that statesmen of lesser lands around the world often sought the counsel of her ministers. Thus it was only natural that in 1896, when Chile and Argentina could not agree on the precise location of parts of their 3,000-mile common border, they turned to London for a solution. Though Victoria died before the job was done, her son Edward VII produced an arbitrator's decision in 1902, and his ruling was accepted in every particular - save one. Until now, that one exception...
...West. Seventeen years after its founding as a bulwark against Soviet aggression, NATO itself was undergoing a profound change. It was a reflection of the new mood sweeping Western Europe. Wearied by burdensome defense spending and convinced that the Soviet threat had all but vanished, the Continent's statesmen were seeking ways to eradicate the last lingering memories of the cold war. In Bonn last week, Europe's venerable integrationist, Jean Monnet, proposed that the Common Market set up joint institutions with the Soviet bloc. At last week's Western European Union meeting, Britain's former...