Word: palmerstonism
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...these parents of taking the easy option. By rejecting school, they commit to a plan that will diminish their earning power and personal freedom for years to come. "There's nothing more artificial in the whole world than a classroom," says Craig Smith, a homeschooling father of eight in Palmerston North, New Zealand. His and wife Barbara's experience mirrors that of many families: having spent the first year or two of home education trying to duplicate the classroom scene, the Smiths nowadays largely eschew anything resembling lessons. Their view is that children need intensive one-on-one tuition...
...hundred and sixty-six years ago this week, Lord Palmerston, the great British Foreign Secretary, sent a letter to the Imperial Chinese government that paved the way for the 1840-42 Anglo-Chinese conflict, the “Opium War.” It’s a brilliantly snappy name that sneakily prejudges the issue: The world is now convinced that the war was a case of commercial and imperialist British greed trying to force opium on the Chinese.The world is wrong.By 1840, the British had several difficulties with China. For a decade, London had rejected China?...
...Alliances-Yes or No? In his viewpoint "A Farewell to Allies" [Jan. 12] Charles Krauthammer quoted 19th century British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston's axiom: nations have no permanent allies, only permanent interests. That sentence should be placed on the front page of newspapers everywhere. For once, even as a Frenchman, I totally agree with Krauthammer's views. I would add that not just Europe but also the U.S. and all other countries have always lived by Lord Palmerston's axiom. There is no such thing as friendship between nations, nor has there ever been a savior for the common...
...should not surprise us. Countries have different interests. For a half-century, anticommunism papered over those differences, but communism is gone. Europe lives by Lord Palmerston's axiom: nations have no permanent allies, only permanent interests. Alliance with America is no longer a permanent interest. The postwar alliance that once structured and indeed defined our world is dead. It died...
...should not surprise us. Countries have different interests. For a half-century, anticommunism papered over those differences, but communism is gone. Europe lives by Lord Palmerston's axiom: nations have no permanent allies, only permanent interests. Alliance with America is no longer a permanent interest. The postwar alliance that once structured and indeed defined our world is dead. It died...