Word: governability
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...getting new tenants, busy German bureaucrats and the men of the Gestapo. On hand for the move was ferret-faced Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler himself, on a flying inspection trip from Germany. Thus, after a year, ended an ignoble experiment-the fumble-footed attempt of Major Vidkun Quisling to govern the country he betrayed...
...will find, among the most ignorant, uneducated, and illiterate people in the nation. If they were allowed to cast a ballot their vote would represent the persuasion of some Hucy Longish great promiser and petty briber rather than the intelligent choice of a people fit and ready to govern themselves. The way to attack the problem of the Southern poor people is not to repeal the poll tax, but to raise their standard of living and to educate them. This is a slow task, but a far wiser and safer method than giving a vote immediately to ten million people...
...Charles chose to abandon some of his autocratic power might have remained a mystery if Sir Charles's family troubles were not so well known. It takes a strong hand to govern Sarawak's tough, native populace and, like many a European dynasty, the Brookes have waxed no stronger as their line grew old. Sir Charles sired three daughters, no son to follow him as Sarawak's Tuan Muda (Crown Prince...
...Yale meeting should carry the idea out of the experimental stage. It is through such conferences as these that the young men best educated to govern can be interested in turning their eyes toward their own city halls, toward their state capitols, and toward Washington and that American government can once again come into...
...accent that our American press and radio put now on the only ephemeral element in time-the present-exposes us dangerously to hysteria, to flotsam-and-jetsam thinking, judging and acting. Even more than a person, a people that would govern itself needs to be daily reminded that before this day time was, and after it time will be. Without this there can be no steady plowing through the calm and the storm, there can be only a tossing about on the wave...