Word: palmerstonism
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According to Lord Palmerston, nations have no permanent allies or enemies, only permanent interests. That maxim contains a warning the Bush Administration should heed as it deals with the Socialist Republic of Viet...
...only war the U.S. ever lost. "That war cleaves us still," said George Bush in his Inaugural Address. "But, friends, surely the statute of limitations has been reached. The final lesson of Viet Nam is that no great nation can long afford to be sundered by a memory." Like Palmerston's, those were wise words. But the Administration has yet to apply the lesson to Viet Nam itself...
According to Lord Palmerston (1848), England has no eternal friends, England has no perpetual enemies, England has only eternal and perpetual interests. It is true that Britain has been our ally. It has been in her interest...
...photos reprinted here have real artistic merit, but that, oddly enough, is their strength. They show the Victorian aristocracy as it saw itself: serene, assured and confident, as no one has been since, that tomorrow would be just the same as today. In one 1858 picture. Lord Palmerston, who was soon to be Prime Minister, stands with a group on the impressive steps of his manor, Broadlands; his top hat makes him look ten feet tall, and, judging by the expression on his face, that is precisely how he felt...
...barren island with hardly a house upon it." Such was British Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston's contemptuous description of Hong Kong before it was ceded to the British by a weak Chinese regime at the close of the Opium War in 1842. As a fruit of war, it was not considered a peach. But over the past 137 years, the once blighted island has developed into a bustling seaport colony that boasts a thriving economy. Though Britain's lease on 90% of the 400-sq.-mi. area expires in only 18 years, residents expect a glowing future...