Word: statesmanship
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...Empire from "economic ruin" and its "muddling politicians." Poking fun at the "Industrialists," Politician Lloyd George remarked that "Great Britain is the most overindustrialized country in the world. Only 7% of our people are on the soil! At present the industries of the country are a leaning tower. Statesmanship must give them a broader base upon the soil!" Winding up his speech with a twit at the higher tariff schemes with which so many British statesmen are now toying, both in England and overseas (see Canada), stanch free-trader Lloyd George concluded wittily: "A drowning man should not clutch...
...happiness than that I have never been drawn into political life. I have watched what happens to holders of high political office. I have seen their every word distorted and twisted to find some hidden meaning. I have seen their political supporters picture them as prodigies of wisdom and statesmanship while their opponents at the same time set them out as stupid scoundrels. And I have known them, and known that they were neither the one nor the other, just average Americans...
Prohibition was a prime issue. Governor Young was backed by the Anti- Saloon League. District Attorney Fitts claimed he was no less Dry than the Governor. These two did a lot of their campaigning from church pulpits, led prayer meetings, spoke on "Christian Statesmanship." Mayor Rolph, a West-Coast counterpart of Manhattan's Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, would not declare himself beyond the joshing statement: "Why, I'm not a Wet. I've been on the water wagon for two years...
Possibly a sense of humor would be dangerous to the intensity of conviction and idealism necessary to such statesmanship; perhaps a period of incarnation removes all traces of natural humor; at any rate the Lampoon seems to have been working in a sphere in which it is not appreciated...
...Leadership is a quality of the individual. If Democracy is to secure its authorities in morals, religion and statesmanship, it must stimulate leadership from its own mass. . . . Acts and ideas that lead to progress are born out of the womb of the individual mind, not out of the mind of the crowd...