Word: governability
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According to Lippmann, de Tocqueville concluded that the British aristocracy survived because its members "accepted heavy burdens in order that they might be allowed to continue to govern," while the French aristocracy perished because they preferred to cling "to their privileges and immunities to console themselves for having lost to the king the power to govern." U.S. business can perish or survive according to how it chooses between the same essential alternatives today. But the great danger is that U.S. businessmen will unwittingly suffer the fate of the nobility of France - unless they stop "brooding upon their grievances and their...
...world is getting tired of German-provoked wars," Allport said, and for that reason, a 30 year "government by commission" headed by German as well as by international leaders, could solve the problem of eliminating Nazi-ism and preparing the German people for the time when they will govern themselves and take part, unaggressively, in a world federation...
...wisely improvised a solution on the ground which had stopped the fighting short of unnecessary bloodshed. The President went on to describe the arrangement with Admiral Darlan as "temporary," and he used the word "temporary" five times. No permanent alliance arrangement would be made with Darlan. The French Govern ment is to be re-established by the French people themselves "after they have been set free." He had asked, in North Africa, the abrogation of all laws based on Nazi ideology, and the liberation of all persons who had opposed the Nazis. With evident satisfaction he slapped down the final...
...remain your guide. You have but one duty: Obey. You have but one government, over which I have been given power to govern. You have but one country, France, which I incarnate...
...been seen lolling along in a native tonga (cart) toward a nearby village, where the captured officers are popular because they have so much money to squander. This situation is altogether proper and legal: Britain is merely observing the Geneva Convention, which 29 nations adopted in 1935 to govern the treatment of prisoners...