Word: realpolitiker
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Deutscher makes another significant point, most recently reiterated in the New Statesman of April 17: "In foreign policy [Khrushchev] continues, amid changed circumstances, Stalin's Realpolitik, even if he does it under the cloak of de-Stalinization. He seeks to subordinate international communism, and the revolutionary movements of Asia, Africa and Latin America, to the purposes of Soviet policy and diplomacy...
...dancing bear, no exotic specimen of a Near-Eastern religion, no man to be clinically observed. Flanked by three docile bodyguards Malcolm baffled his Leverett House audience with an oddly-paced blend of demagoguery and rationality, haughtiness and humor, sham history and acute analysis, utopian policies and realpolitik...
Union Minière defends the fact that it has paid taxes to Tshombe rather than to the Congo's central government with the realpolitik argument that up to now Tshombe has been the effective power in Katanga. Last week, with Tshombe's star apparently sinking, the company began negotiating with the central government over future payments. To charges that the company has been meddling in Congolese politics. Union Minière Director Herman Robiliart snaps: "The policy of Union Minière is to produce copper...
...history. Senator Dodd of Connecticut observed after the Soviet resumption of testing that the action proved the utter fatuity of the American moratorium. Moreover, it confirmed that Russia had been conducting tests underground all along. Although Mr. Rockefeller has not attained an equal mastery of the logic of Realpolitik, he is surely nobody's fool...
...salon and fust plain autocrats were tetchy. Voltaire, who hated oppression, was oppressively tightfisted with money. Indeed, he made himself a millionaire as a moneylender. As the house guest of Frederick the Great, Voltaire was caught out in a shady currency-smuggling scheme. Frederick, the ruthless practitioner of Realpolitik, was shocked at the low moral code of writers. "If your work deserves statues," he wrote, "your conduct merits chains." Voltaire wrote to friends: "The King is an exceptional man-very attractive at a distance." The pair resumed their friendship later, since Frederick, an incorrigible scribbler of poor verse, could...