Word: palmerstonian
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...America today is obviously not the British Empire. But perhaps Foggy Bottom could begin acting in a slightly more Palmerstonian manner vis-à-vis those Americans unjustly detained abroad. Indeed, if Dr. Yang Jianli is still locked up when Chinese premier Wen Jiabao visits Washington next month, it would be nice if State officials at least reminded Wen that “the watchful eye and the strong arm” of the United States are not to be trifled with...
...with the anger. No sooner had Queen Elizabeth solemnly proclaimed "a case of great emergency" than she went off to the Duke of Norfolk's box at the fashionable race meeting that traditionally winds up Lon don's social season. After cheering Sir Anthony Eden's Palmerstonian boast that the Royal Navy "will take care of" any Egyptian warships on the loose, the House of Commons, like the French Assembly, adjourned for the summer. But the urgency was real. Air Marshal Sir John Slessor, great airman turned topflight military strategist, spoke for many Britons when he said...
Palmorston Style. Fed up with the past humiliations in Iran and Egypt, the British were putting on a fine old-fashioned Palmerstonian display of Empire. R.A.F. fighters buzzed up and down the 750-mile-long camel tracks running into Saudi Arabia, searching out reinforcements bound for Turki. Jeep-borne Oman levies roamed everywhere, terrifying camel caravans. From a 40-foot-high Beau Geste-like tower of mud-brick reinforced with palm logs-containing storerooms for food, water and ammunition, and slotted for rifles-a young British major named Peter MacDonald was happily running the show...
...Jail Diplomacy." In London the Rothermere (yellow Conservative) press screeched that "Lord Irwin's jail diplomacy has failed!" and decorous Conservative papers said the same thing less neatly. The Laborite Daily Herald, worried, took refuge in a Palmerstonian phrase, observed that the Viceroy "reluctantly but perforce will now be unable to contract the latitudes of executive discretion"-i. e., "jail diplomacy" is to continue...
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