Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago there was a chance that Attlee might have to yield the leadership to a bigger Laborite. He and his Government had lost prestige at home and abroad. But now Attlee is over the worst of his qualms. He is banking on the Cripps production and export program, Dalton's emergency dollar measures, and the coming ministerial changes to restore British and world confidence...
...White House this week. And when he got there he would be confronted with problems as complicated, if not as intense, as India's. They were world problems which the U.S., almost alone, had to solve. But Americans could not be expected to act without some leadership...
...second time in four months the United States has taken the initiative in offering a program for promoting peace and security. The two Marshall plans, made successively in the Harvard address and at Flushing Meadows, support the belief that finally the United States has assumed the mantle of leadership among peace loving nations, and that henceforth its great power and prestige will be actual rather than potential factors in the struggle for peace...
Last week Senator Baldwin, a Willkieman in 1940, sounded his rebel cry in public. In an article in the American Magazine, he hit hard at "rock-ribbed ultra-conservatism" and at the record of the G.O.P. leadership in Congress. Wrote Baldwin...
Orthodox Marxism holds that society operates in accordance with determined economic laws; this view minimizes the personal element in history. However, the Soviet State that has actually evolved is a dictatorship rooted in the principle of infallible personal leadership. This irreconcilable conflict of ideas prevents Soviet thinkers from agreeing on a definition of what the Soviet State is which leaves the philosophers in the position of being ordered to "militantly advance the spirit" of a thing they cannot define...