Word: statesmanship
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...chiefs want him to go. He did his best to check the ire of mounting tempers and to clear the way for intelligent, thoughtful negotiation. Out of the garnered wisdom of 28 years' diplomatic experience Ambassador Grew said, shortly after his arrival in Tokyo two years ago: "For statesmanship and for diplomacy there can be no more important duty than to smooth out and to align differences of opinion among nations...
...Diplomacy. He knows what his country wants and is not ashamed to live like a discriminating prince while getting it. Last week his immediate purpose was to wangle Soviet Russia into the League of Nations but he was preparing other, greater moves in the endless chess game of international statesmanship. With the clear conscience of a Frenchman who was in his childhood when German troops occupied Paris in 1871, M. Barthou is out to encircle the Nazi Reich with a chain of alliances calculated to ensure that Paris shall never be bombed, shelled or occupied again...
...runs the particular office. She rarely has the title. . . . Perhaps some of you have wondered how politicians, lifted suddenly from obscurity, can carry on the intricate affairs of a highly technical government job. There is no mystery. These transplanted gentlemen have not, by magic, become genii of finance or statesmanship, but they have found in their new offices some unassuming woman who knows what it's all about and carries on. I could name a dozen such cases, but I won't. Custom has hallowed the procedure. . . . When all this emergency is over, there will be a sudden realization that...
...President's wine and Teetotaler Hitler's water they discoursed upon high politics. Once again the shrunken-jowled President boomed out the useful aphorism which serves him on all occasions: '"Ordnung muss sein! We must have order!" There are times when such platitudes are the highest statesmanship, especially when dealing with an hysteric type like Adolf Hitler. His air was almost reverent as he posed two hours later with the Reichspräsident for a farewell flash portrait. As Der Führer ducked out to fly by night back to Berlin, massive Old Paul, slightly pale...
United Feature released the first of 21 installments of Statesmanship and Religion, by Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace, which is to be published next May in book form by Round Table Press...