Word: statecraft
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...startling close. As the keen witted Cardinal Richelieu he brought out both the clever perception of the master plotter and at the same time he added an almost pathetic feeling of futility and remorse that must come from a life occupied with only intrigue and statecraft. His gestures were particularly eloquent in this respect, usually managing to convey a thoroughly adequate impression with the smallest motion of the hand. There was but one fault, and that is that death laid a very ostentatious hand upon him at surprisingly frequent intervals. The fact that one got a slightly muddled impression...
...seemed a puny match for his Latin opponents: the delegations of France, Belgium and Italy, marshaled by doughty French Prime Minister Aristide Briand. It was a queer tussle. M. Briand is at least three times as great in girth as the frail Yorkshireman, and nine years his senior in statecraft. The Latins, supported by Japan and with Germany's blocky Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann neutral, were in solid phalanx pressing for adoption of the Young Plan unchanged. They were satisfied with the size of their pieces of sponge cake. Since Britain wanted more?since she wanted some of their...
...have detailed the lice, the mud, the oaths, on "Flanders Field." The present volume is distinctive in vivifying that other, more mysterious, no-man's-land east of Germany, west of Russia. But far more than this, The Case of Sergeant Grischa is a powerful indictment of autocratic statecraft, a pageant of heterogeneous border peoples, and a human document of uncanny understanding. The jocund vitality which lured Grischa to mad escape is no less vivid than his fatalistic reluctance to escape again. Insignificant "case," Grischa is the symbol that rouses the interest pf villagers, the prophecies of Hebrew elders...
...cannot be grasped without harking back a year to the Prime Ministry of Vintila Bratiano's late brother, the great Jon Bratiano. He it was who daringly altered the Royal succession and placed upon the Throne a baby King, Mihai I (TIME, Aug. 1, 1927). This stroke of statecraft was designed to maintain the power of the Tycoons unchallenged until the baby king grew up. To make doubly sure, Jon Bratiano set up a Regency of two old men and a youth, all denounced by the Parliamentary Opposition as puppets...
...role of reigning queens though splendorous is indefinite. Their duty to the State may be irreproachably discharged by mere male bearing.* Even more nebulous is the aggregate contribution to statecraft of the wives of Premiers, Ministers and Opposition leaders. They are too numerous to be counted, and too much at cross purposes to be broadly significant. But today a new class of august women loom as worthy of inspection. They are the Consorts of the world's six major Dictators. Theirs is the simplified problem and the dazzling opportunity of swaying a nation by persuading, cajoling or nagging...