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...just a hearty soldier. He collects Mexican art and fancies symphonic music. Though sociable he is not avidly social. He and his wife have friends to dinner most evenings, but directly dinner is over the friends are packed off home, and Avila Camacho goes to bed to study statecraft out of books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: New President, Old Job | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...admit that it had a decisive, selfish, personal interest in what happened to the British Fleet. In its own way it had come to translate into blunt language what Lord Lothian had said indirectly from the start. And signs were accumulating that the world's greatest problem in statecraft-British and U. S. relations-was approaching a critical phase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Lord Lothian's Job | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

Niccolo Machiavelli once wrote that though the French might be greater fighters, the Italians were those who understood statecraft. Far from being completely crushed (as any French Premier would have been) by his military disappointment, heartsick Premier Mussolini set about trying to make his military lemon into diplomatic lemonade. To his and his Florentine precursor's credit, Mussolini has done a pretty good job of it. As of last week the most important single question in Europe's war had more than ever become: What will Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: No. 1 Facist | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...this time it was really Finland and the trains were running West. As Russia's westward expansion hit the border of the little Baltic country and she presented her demands to Finland's envoy to Moscow, she also presented President Roosevelt with a major problem in statecraft. It forced on him what correspondents did not hesitate to call "the most delicate and momentous" decision of his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: To the Finland Station | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Other Michiganders, however, are not so sanguine about their Governor's brain-trust, view with alarm many an example of Luren Dickinson's recent statecraft. Since March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Governor and God | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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