Word: statecraft
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...frenzied drama. Russell and Palmerston plotting behind Minister Adams's back; Minister Adams sensing it, yet soothing the jangled feelings of Secretary of State Seward with optimistic dispatches. Without Minister Adam's consummate statecraft the United States of America might never have emerged from the Civil strife. There could have been war with England as well as with the rebellious South. Once, when Earl Russell assured Adams that there would be no intervention, that England's policy would remain unchanged, Adams was unaware that a few hours previously Russell had proposed intervention to a cabinet which rejected his proposal. Henry...
...censorship in both Tokyo and Nanking has delayed and blurred this greatest Far East news story. By last week, however, it seemed clear that the present which her bantamweight Premier & Generalissimo was giving his country on his 50th birthday was a heavyweight and possibly a knockout blow of Chinese statecraft, ending the policy toward Japan which the Nanking Government has pursued for nearly a decade: the turn-the-other-cheek policy of accepting humiliation...
Ciano Career. Old hands at Statecraft consider that the young Count has had their metier's most meteoric career. His vigorous father Count Costanzo Ciano, Admiral and longtime Minister of Communications, was one of Italy's most conspicuous naval heroes of the War. In Fascism's early days Father Ciano was the first Italian of national prominence to join struggling Editor Benito Mussolini and become a Fascist. Son Galeazzo was a Fascist zealot before he was out of his teens. After a law degree at the University of Rome, he became theatre and book reviewer on Nuovo...
...Belgian people saw their handsome young King Leopold III emerge decisively last week from his grief-stricken brooding over the death of his beloved Queen Astrid (TIME. Sept. 9, 1935) and strike a heavy blow of statecraft which resounded from one end of Europe to the other. To the neat, bright Royal Palace in Brussels were summoned Premier-Professor Paul van Zeeland and Cabinet to hear an historic declaration reversing the post-War foreign policy of Belgium. By boldly assuming full responsibility for what he said, His Majesty raised his declaration above the cockpit of party politics, placed...
...Charles Macfie Campbell, ingoing president of the American-Psychiatric Association, toyed with the notion of lending psychiatry to statecraft when he asked: "In the sphere of politics and statesmanship, is it possible to make the present available knowledge of human nature of any practical effect? ... As a beginning one might arrange a special consultation service for legislators and statesmen, where they could get some insight into the problems of their own personality as an introduction to a proper understanding of their fellows...