Word: statecraft
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...race of scientifically-minded humans, uniformly rich, is seen working one day in four, and flourishing on synthetic foodstuffs. Children will be laboratory-made by ectogenetic methods, leaving governments free to design their subjects, women free to run the governments. The higher reaches of statecraft, however, and of the arts as well, will still be the province of males, who will relax in foxhunting and horse-racing, sports which the Earl, with true British acumen, finds will continue. War unfortunately will persist, but in a more humane form, conducted largely by amphibian tanks, perhaps radio-controlled. If the molecular engine...
Thus Japan's Chief Delegate confirmed rumors current at the time of the Conference that Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson leaned heavily on British diplomats and that all major feats of statecraft were performed by Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald before the Conference opened. From further remarks of Mr. Wakatsuki in Tokyo last week it appeared that Senator Reed of Pennsylvania was not the man who brought the Japanese- to whom he was assigned-around. The Chief Delegate said that after his subordinate, Ambassador Matsudaira, and Senator Reed had become deadlocked he, Reijiro Wakatsuki, went over their heads...
...Rome the Dictator's personal physician recalled that Il Duce when performing the sedentary brain work of statecraft keeps to a scant, frugal, almost womanish diet. His sudden excess of appetite, his unwonted he-man meals, are the result of exercise, both muscular and vocal, on his recent whirlwind speechmaking swing around northern Italy (TIME...
...salt making demonstrations spread to other parts of India, more than 80 law-breakers were arrested, including the Mahatma's son Ram Das Gandhi. Those first brought to trial were fined up to $182 or six months in jail. A typical stroke of British statecraft was an announcement by a spokesman for the British Government that: "The Government considers Mr. Gandhi's actions merely symbolical, and not an actual violation...
...Sell All Thou Hast!" The first axiom of western statecraft is that religion has no place in politics. "But if religion is not needed in politics," blinks Mr. Gandhi, "then where on earth is it needed?" Perfectly infuriating to Englishmen is this sort of thing, which they call "sickening cant...