Word: opportunisme
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Japanese diplomats try hard to act by Occidental standards of hard-headed opportunism, always end the Oriental way: face first, facts afterwards. Last week Japan chose to let the end of her trade treaty with the U. S. - a really serious incident - pass with hardly an official sigh but spilled...
All these factors contributed to the week's culminating blow. As expected, the weak Abe Cabinet fell. But definitely not as expected, and to the Army's bitter confusion, the Cabinet which took its place was not militaristic, not chauvinistic, not even mystic-was for down-to-earth...
The Life. While the new Nazi-Communist partnership may have surprised those whose Russian reading had been confined to the idealistic utterances of such Soviet diplomats as onetime Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff, Stalin's life reveals numerous examples of cynical opportunism and unprincipled grabbing of power. Sent to a...
"Even the most absolute dictator is susceptible to the influence of his surroundings. Nevertheless Herr Hitler's decisions, his calculations and his opportunism were his own. As Field Marshal Göring once said to me, 'When a decision has to be taken, none of us counts more...
Some Communists feel that the great danger to Communism today is the possibility that great numbers of Party members outside of Russia may come to believe, as Leon Trotsky does now, that Joseph Stalin is mainly compacted of opportunism, cynicism and a readiness to sacrifice to the national interests of...