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RUSSIA LEAVES THE WAR, by George F. Kennan. Ex-Ambassador Kennan starts a massive (the first volume of three) attempt to show how U.S. liberal statesmanship tried, and failed, to play ball with Russian ideology during and after World War I. No book this year has documented so carefully and so effectively the impossibility of matching deceit with good will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: THE YEAR'S BEST | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

John Foster Dulles-a man of great moral courage who has brought strength into the State Department and, even more, has shed a new light on the whole concept of statesmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...audience graced by his cousin, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, Herman lamented that "your parents and mine had to live under Yankee bayonets and occupation rule, and resist the same fight we are going through at the present time . . . Yankee rule, carpetbagging." Then, dropping the toga of statesmanship that he has recently stitched up for use in Washington (TIME, Oct. 15), Herman added: "The time has come when the people of the South must appeal from those damnable decisions of the Supreme Court to the court of last resort, the decent white people of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Talmadge for President | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...Marxist benevolence lay buried in the rubble of Budapest, which Pope Pius XII called "the bloodstained proof of the ends to which atheist Marxism leads." The British and French, who had sought to make policy by reviving 19th century gunboat diplomacy, had temporarily lost their credentials for world statesmanship. But in another sense, the U.S. had earned the new regard by its own conduct. In time of crisis and threat of World War III, President Eisenhower had cast U.S. policy in a role to reflect the U.S.'s basic character-its insistence on justice, its desire for friendship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Acclaim & Misgivings | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...council intends to raise public school administration to the "level of statesmanship," and to improve the selection and recruitment of candidates for administrative posts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Keppel Named to Group Heading Study of Public School Direction | 12/1/1956 | See Source »

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