Word: realpolitiker
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...South Africa Research Association and a native of Zimbabwe, argued that Soviet support to the MPLA and Chinese support on the other side are not issues in the consideration of the Angolan War. "I'm not worried about the Soviets or China or Cuba," he said in a direct, realpolitik response to the Maoists. "South Africa and its imperialist backers are a greater threat to me. It is true that China is the purest revolutionary regime in the world. But I would quarrel with those who say that the revolutionary purity of China, say, is the same as her foreign...
...victory was interpreted as vindication of Europe's "soft line" to Lisbon's leftward tilt. Said one British official: "I dread to think what would have been the results of the elections if [Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger had been allowed to apply his special brand of Realpolitik-probably 50 Communist deputies." Kissinger refused comment on the grounds that the election was an "internal matter," but privately U.S. officials said they were pleased by the outcome...
...that Nixon's role in American foreign policy, creative though it was, had largely been played out. Said La Stampa: "He pulled America out of Viet Nam, reestablished normal relations with the Soviet Union and China, and saved the devalued dollar. . . But to carry out the new international Realpolitik, Nixon is no longer necessary. He has done his part." Although they credit Nixon with having made the breakthroughs, Europeans would just as soon have the difficult follow-up left to Henry Kissinger. As one Whitehall official put it, Nixon's détente achievements are all "past tense...
...this ever-struggling world of Charlie "Metternich" Finely, Baron von Kroc (the Padres's mastermind of realpolitik) and Bob "Castlereagh" Short (since ousted from his Texas kingdom), the balance of power explains all. After a long winter season of pacts which guarantee support from the lackey ballplayers, baseball begins its annual summer campaign in early April. Once the campaign begins, cityteams continually battle to stay ahead, clashing as frequently as four or five times a week during those hot months of July and August...
David Halberstam '55, the former Managing Editor, has pointed out the weaknesses of the Kennedy approach to foreign policy. The "best and the brightest," the Harvard professors and the liberal intellectuals who made up Kennedy's Kitchen Cabinet, often lacked practical experience and understanding of Realpolitik. But the bad fruit of the Kennedy era did not become manifest until long after Camelot had passed away, and The Crimson of the 1960-63 period ran a love affair with the White House...