Word: statesmanship
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...speech, Farmer also attacked President Kennedy's stand on civil rights, charging "he has been more interested in the vagaries of politics than in true statesmanship...
...spate of qualifications to the pact-any one of which could have put the whammy on the whole works. "If reservations are attached to the treaty," New York Republican Jacob Javits had warned, "it will mar for the world and all the nations which are signing the treaty the statesmanship which dedicated it in the first place...
Neither side in this matter should maintain an inflexible stand. It will require statesmanship on the part of both the NAACP and the School Committee to recognize that the problem exists and that it cannot be solved in any simple manner. What is needed in Boston is the mutual cooperation of civic officials and Negro leaders to work toward long-range solutions to these problems which admit of no easy answers. To pretend that such answers exist will only exacerbate the unrest in the Negro community, and force the whites back on the defensive in another round of destructive recriminations...
...ignored all the pressures, while tightening his hold on the small Caribbean nation. Last week the U.S. caved in, recalled the assault force and told its charge d'affaires in Port-au-Prince to "resume normal diplomatic relations." The Haitian radio crowed of Duvalier's "triumph of statesmanship," and Papa Doc sent his goons to raze a two-mile strip along the Dominican border to halt the stream of political refugees fleeing his corrupt and bloody regime...
...just a rebel, filled with hate," flies to Britain where is the Prime Minister, holds a small seance with be P.M.'s wife and peacenik son in a secluded corner of the London Zoo, reconciles the son to the father, gives the father a "new purpose and a new statesmanship," and then flies back home to do the same thing of the Chief Marshal of Hungary and His son. All this action takes place within then space of one day. The seance, of course, has turned the trick. "Lay aside all our points of view," the freedom fighter tells...