Word: realpolitikers
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Serbia's rulers were often personally weak and depraved, but the Serbs in general grew hard and defiant in the schools of Turkish tyranny and European Realpolitik. They never suffered from the flabbiness that comes with ease. In the First Balkan War (1912), Serbia and her Balkan allies finally ousted Turkey...
...everybody expected she would some day, Russia demanded Bessarabia from Rumania last week. And as everybody expected he would, King Carol II gave in. That much of what went on in the Balkans last week was accepted with a shrug by sophisticates in Realpolitik. Everything else was surprising...
...Moscow's conception of Realpolitik, if Italy upsets the balance of power by pitching in with Germany, it would be consistent for Russia to lean the other way, to keep Europe fighting as long as possible without getting into a big war herself-unless Russia thought the Allied case was hopeless, and went in with Germany and Italy to snatch her share of the spoils...
...Russia, and special loans to Finland, as unneutral--an apparently paradoxical stand. Yet this stand is not a unique paradox it represents a fundamental dualism in the thinking of American liberals. These people idealistically believe in morality in international relations; but they are aware of the fact that Realpolitik, not Christian brotherhood, governs the world today...
...political job. With Chinese politics what they are, and Confucius the cautious kibitzer he was, he was 50 years old before he found one, as governor of a province. Besides giving the province the best government it had ever had, he also astonished his disciples as a master of realpolitik. His good-government policy was simple. He merely designated the following as capital crimes: robbery, an ugly disposition, stubbornness, stupidity, lying. But even the cause of good government could not triumph over his grudge against women. When his lord took to giving more attention to a harem of 80 dancing...