Word: machiavelli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Machiavelli, in the Convent of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, hard by the teeming markets of Rome, a sharp-faced man of 56 with penetrating blue eyes and a quick, pleasant smile settled in last week for a visit in the capital city of his church. He was Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski (pronounced Vishinsky*), Primate of Poland, and, under Pius XII himself, the most remarkable prelate in the Roman Catholic Church today...
...Machiavelli Street is a cardinal who cooperates with a Communist leader in a Communist country, a primate who stumped his nation last winter for votes for a straight Communist ticket, a prince of the church who threw away the Vatican rule book in his dealings with the state. He is also the embodiment of the fervent faith of more than 27 million Poles. Wielding that faith as a moral weapon, Wyszynski has forced from Wladyslaw Gomulka's government a degree of religious freedom and recognition for his church undreamed of anywhere else in the Communist world. Today the cardinal...
...principles of neutralism and humanity dictated such a course, but on November 11th, V.K. Krishna Menon voted with the Soviet bloc in opposing demands for Russian withdrawal from Hungary. The West was stunned, then disappointed, then cynical. Nehru seemed to be playing the hypocrite's role, that of the Machiavelli in Gandhi's clothing...
...F.D.R. was a brash young New York state senator: "This fellow is still young. Wouldn't it be safer to drown him before he grows up?") About economics Roosevelt knew little; in foreign affairs before World War II he was vacillating. But his political dexterity would have tickled Machiavelli, and his confidence and vitality astounded many a first-class intellect blessed with only a second-rate temperament...
...judge, and then "The Minister" in Paris. These four leading parts are all neatly cast, as are the many juicy minor roles in which such European films abound. The judge's wife is a coy hippopotamus; his maid is a laughing machine. The minister's major domo is a Machiavelli in bell-boy's clothes, while the underling who must constantly rewrite his chief's spur of the moment decrees is a charming harassed guppy...