Word: statecraft
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Magic Name. Holding no government office, Indira is nonetheless a member of the ruling Congress Party's powerful Working Committee, which guides all government actions. Voluble and imperious, she has had little experience of statecraft, and is noted, in a Western diplomat's words, for "thinking with her heart." Her foes predicted disaster in 1959 when she was elected president of the flabby, faction-torn Congress Party. But in her whirlwind year on the job, Indira showed considerable political acumen...
...certain folksy appeal. Watching him on the screen, De Gaulle himself once said appreciatively: "Good. Louis XVIII in modern dress." He was referring to the first Bourbon king restored to the throne after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, a man who combined prudence with a ready wit, statecraft with a talent for compromise, and one who came to power after an indubitably great man. France, exhausted by glory and travail, had welcomed him as Louis the Desired...
...only thoughts and cares will always be the true and supreme interest of our fatherland." When the vows had been spoken, Premier George Papandreou shouted "Long live the King!" and the assemblage echoed the words. At 23 the world's youngest monarch, Constantine will be tutored in statecraft by the foxy Papandreou,* 76, whose Center Union coalition won a landslide victory over Karamanlis' Conservatives last month. A tall, athletic youth who won an Olympic gold medal in 1960, Constantine can rely for some time on sympathy for his father and the good feeling engendered by his impending marriage...
Most of the degree recipients in public service have backgrounds in education. Secretary Rusk, whose citation read "resolute, responsible leader in a perilous age who seeks in statecraft a constructive world force," was once Dean of the Mills College Faculty, and served until 1961 as President of the Rockefeller Foundation. Kennan is returning this year to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeon. Thant ("He reconciles conflicts among the nations and boldly administers a worldwide ecort for human betterment") was a headmaster of Burese schools and state director of Information...
Burns is pretty unhappy about present-day politics. Says he: "As a nation we have lost control of our politics." The U.S. has "a government by fits and starts, a statecraft that has not been able to supply the steady leadership and power necessary for the conduct of our affairs. We have reacted to change rather than dominated it." Why is this so? The Burns thesis: "The pattern of national politics is essentially a four-party pattern. The Democratic and Republican parties are each divided into congressional and presidential structures, with all the elements that comprise the American type...