Word: governability
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...forces in World War II) might long ago have been Greece's No. 1 political leader but for a personal quarrel with King Paul. His Greek Rally Party polled the largest number of seats in the last election, but the King snubbed the Field Marshal and handed the government to a coalition of Plastiras Progressives and Venizelos Liberals. The coalition fell to pieces when it became apparent that it could govern only with the tacit support of the crypto-Communist Democratic Union Party...
Eisenhower said "military service is an obligation that every citizen owes his nation." The dilemma, he said, is that the military cannot discontinue its draft calls, and institute U.M.T. at the present time. The solution, he said, is to establish a commission to review "the policies that govern our whole military program" and "restudy the operations, functions, and acts of the Department of Defense...
...engulf her . . . The plain and brutal fact today is that Europe is not making these sacrifices . . . her military budgets in terms of their proportion of the national income are far below those that we propose for ourselves. Her draft of manpower is less severe than what we suggest should govern us here . . . This effort is clearly not enough...
...really possible to govern a country by ritual and yielding, there is no more to be said. But if it is not really possible, of what use is ritual...
...country does not have a single native graduate engineer, architect, chemist or agricultural expert; in all Ethiopia there is only one native physician. Selassie must rely on foreign help to bolster his ministries. Americans, who predominate among his advisers, govern the national bank, edit the official newspaper, run the nationalized airline, and direct highway construction. A Swedish military mission trains the Imperial Guard and a fledgling air force...