Word: governability
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...whirling rhythm, and passed on, exalted. "You see," cried a delirious Gold Coaster, grabbing the arm of a wondering white man, "it is real-REAL! Real democracy. He is one of us. A man of the people. Now that you have seen, you must understand: we can govern ourselves...
When America must hire foreign mercenaries to do our fighting for us, then it will be time to invite the Politburo to govern us. Korea is neither Truman's war nor Stalin's war; it is another battle in the continuing struggle for the survival of Christian civilization, like Tours, Lepanto, Guadalcanal, and some lesser engagements like the one at the Little Big Horn. Brass-rail strategists would do well to acquaint themselves with the facts and lessons of history. Imperial Rome withered and decayed and was sacked by her mercenaries...
...Chamber to any party or coalition which wins more than 50% of the vote. De Gasperi, whose own devotion to minority rights was hardened during his long years in opposition to Mussolini, is reluctantly convinced that democracy can survive in Italy only if the majority gets a chance to govern, free from parliamentary harassment from representatives who are sworn enemies of parliamentary democracy. He fears in particular a cynical coalition of Italy's Communists (the strongest Red party in Western Europe, and the only one to gain strength at the polls in recent years) and the rising neoFascists...
...Congress. There is a great lag in the education and information between you who know the outside world and the great mass of the American people and their elected representatives, a great lag between you who know the facts of the world and the 150 million people who really govern the U.S. . . . You must learn to take it and live with...
...politicians who govern France gathered in the National Assembly last week to perform the familiar French rite of political execution. The appointed victim this time was Premier Antoine Pinay, who in nine months and two weeks had given France its most stable economy since the war (TIME...