Word: statesmanship
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...unconfirmed but persistent rumor from Rome, last week, was to the effect that Count Volpi considers his work of rehabilitating Italian finance now complete, and plans to retire soon from active statesmanship...
Lord Derby, as Secretary of State for War (1916-18 & 1922-24), and British Ambassador at Paris (1918-20), has proved his "fitness" by sustained, dynamic statesmanship. If, during crucial War years, not even the Secretary of State for War could touch his toes, what may be the state of England's great men in present times of peace? This question, mildly savoring of treason vitiated the British press all week, while reporters tried vainly to get other great men to affirm or deny that they can touch their toes. Cagy politicians refused to answer, but Mr. George Bernard...
...spirit of creative energy want action, where shall they look for the one big man except to Lloyd George? What other has ever done anything big? What young politician of any party gives promise today of even a tithe of Mr. Lloyd George's proven statesmanship...
...ever a man and a King was born into the world it is His Majesty Alfonso XIII. English men do not require to be told this. They know it, for they know him. The King's ascendancy over his subjects, the mastery of his statesmanship, have been shown at every stage of his reign. They explain how the country is held together in progress and prosperity through a thousand political vicissitudes. Elaboration is needless here...
...with onetime friends who were leaving him to rot forgotten. Jobholders whose jobs he had secured for them, officials whose offices had come from his bounty-they ignored him now. Back in the fall of 1926 he had threatened to expose some of the less lovely incidents of Indiana statesmanship, had received word that if he kept quiet until after the election he would be "taken care of." He had kept quiet, but his reticence had not been rewarded. In June he had protested against the treatment he was getting in the jail, and an investigating board had found...