Word: statesmanship
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Inviting imprisonment by a reckless shot at the Fuhrer the Bishop declared: "Great men can be spoiled by too much worship and adulation and made incompetent to fulfill the aims of statesmanship. No nation should seek to elevate a faithful son of the Fatherland to the throne...
Government supporters shouted themselve hoarse. Business leaders whooped with joyous relief. Telegrams praising the Prime Minister's "wise statesmanship" and "high courage" poured into No. 10 Downing Street. Stock Exchange prices, especially of base metals, shot upward. Neville Chamberlain had no cause to regret his "commonsense attitude...
...been more circumspect in public statements about Organized Labor than some of his hard-boiled fellow steelmasters. They would probably not receive the shrewd compliment paid last week by Mr. Lewis to Mr. Taylor's "industrial statesman-ship." Rumors flew that Mr. Taylor's feat of industrial statesmanship might be crowned with White House recognition in the field of international statesmanship. Promptly denied, the amazing story was that Myron Charles Taylor was now in line for a New Deal Ambassadorship, perhaps to the Court of St. James...
...about to be inaugurated." Having settled that matter of precedent, Franklin Roosevelt settled down to what appeared to be almost such a workaday enumeration of the problems confronting the Government as Calvin Coolidge used to give. Chief difference was that the Roosevelt voice cloaked them with an aura of statesmanship. He mentioned that he would ask Congress for quick action to extend the expiring life of certain authorizations and powers (for example, RFC lending), to modify the Neutrality Act in order to provide an embargo against arms shipments to Spain, to pass a deficiency bill (to provide for Relief...
...Baldwin's historic triumph at home came only after he had earned from History some pretty low marks for 1936 in statesmanship abroad, notably his weak and clumsy handling of Mussolini. As for that Dictator in 1936, against odds which the greatest European military experts called "insurmountable" for a country so comparatively not strong as Italy, he carved out for himself an Empire in Africa. He gambled on the weakness of the League of Nations and on Britain being unable to make a success of Sanctions. Finally, he gambled that the military experts were wrong. In all three gambles...