Word: statesmanship
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...months, the Congo's fledgling Parliament reassembled last week in Lovanium University's handsome modern auditorium. Isolated from outside influences by an electrified barbed-wire fence, patrols of police dogs and Indian machine gunners of the U.N. force, the legislators made a forlorn stab at statesmanship. That it failed was largely the fault of two bedridden absentees: Red lining Antoine Gizenga, boss of Eastern province and heir apparent of Lumumba, and round-faced Moise Tshombe, President of the separatist state of Katanga...
...Bible-thumping pagan," is his son's phrase), something very close to a crook (the question of a political fund, most of which may have stuck in his own pocket, was never cleared up), and a sedulous seducer on a scale "unprecedented" in the history of British statesmanship...
...ever made that claim." Jenghiz Khan and Oliver Cromwell receive high grades from Monty for their military skill, but Cromwell flunks as a political strategist. King Alfred is given the palm as "possibly the greatest king England has ever had" for combining admirably the arts of generalship and statesmanship. Tito and De Gaulle are awarded top honors among contemporary leaders who wield both Parliaments and paratroops...
...come to grips with the latter. "Against an opponent known to consider nuclear war as the worse evil, nuclear blackmail is an almost fool-proof strategy." Juxtapose this statement with the following: "To rely entirely on the continued good will of another sovereign state is an abdication of statesmanship and self-respect"--and you have the central point of Kissinger's critique...
...universities in America was by far the most effective presentation of the subject we have seen in brief compass. Incidentally, if there have been "meddlesome bishops" in Methodist education, they have not been encountered here. On the contrary, these enlightened leaders of the church have set an example of statesmanship for our trustees...