Word: statesmanly
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Beneath a huge sepia photograph of the general, the speakers are extolling his qualities as citizen-soldier-statesman...
...speech was yet another masterly performance by one of the world's premier political orators, even though it contained little that Castro had not said before. In Washington's view, the speech was primarily intended to enhance Castro's prestige as a senior statesman of the Third World. When he first addressed the U.N., in 1960, the 33-year-old Castro was a fledgling revolutionary, overshadowed by such neutralist giants as Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, then 68, and India's Jawaharlal Nehru, 70. Castro has now survived for 20 years as Cuba...
Having entered office as a self-described "apprentice statesman, " Henry Kissinger departed an acknowledged master. Herewith some of his observations on the statesman's craft...
...President cannot take away the curse of a controversial decision by hesitation in its execution. Use of military force must always be made with a prayerful concern for Bismarck's profound dictum: "Woe to the statesman whose reasons for entering a war do not appear so plausible at its end as at its beginning...
...societies of which history informs us went through periods of decline; most eventually collapsed. Yet there is a margin between necessity and accident in which the statesman must choose. The statesman...