Word: statesmen
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Konrad Adenauer would have liked the company, and enjoyed being the center of attention. To his funeral in Cologne this week came the rulers and statesmen of the Atlantic world, including Presidents Johnson and De Gaulle, Britain's Harold Wilson, and the heads of some ten or more other European governments. It was a fitting tribute to the man who, more than any other, had shaped the destiny of postwar Europe. His death last week at 91 came at a time of change and unease within Europe and between Europe and the U.S., and the summit gathering...
Though no formal talks were planned, the statesmen attending the funeral would have plenty of chances to get together, particularly at a lunch and dinner given by the West Germans. Lyndon Johnson especially wanted to meet West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger, and he would, of course, see Charles de Gaulle, to whom he had not talked in person since President Kennedy's funeral. In the American delegation were Secretary of State Dean Rusk; former High Commissioner in Germany John J. McCloy; General Lucius D. Clay, onetime military governor of the U.S. zone; and former CIA Director Allen Dulles...
When one glances back at the past, one occasionally sees clear and coherent elements of concept in the thinking of the Federalist statesmen, and some fairly clear ones in the thinking of some of their successors down through the middle of the XIX century...
...good of common humanity. This is rather naive because it assumes that people alter power rather than that power alters people. It leads Brecht into his customary fallacy of assuming that power is good in the hands of workers and scientists and bad in the hands of statesmen, clerics and generals. As a historical determinist, Brecht curiously calls for a needless martyrdom. With or without Galileo's recantation, an age of science was inevitable...
Last week the Vice President was on the last lap of his most delicate journey yet-a two-week tour of major European capitals to reassure continental statesmen that, despite its preoccupation with Viet Nam, the U.S. has not forgotten its transatlantic allies. The allies had a number of thorny issues to discuss-from Washington's proposed nuclear non-proliferation treaty with...