Word: statesmanship
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...statement, but the next development brought British reaction to the boiling point. Out of Athens came reports that Career Diplomat Cavendish Welles Cannon, U.S. Ambassador to Greece, had followed up the Washington statement with an expression of "sympathetic concern" for Greece, and praise for Greek "dignity and statesmanship" in the affair. British newspapers promptly roared that this was an insult to Great Britain (a "kick in the teeth," said London's Daily Mail); Sir Roger Makins, Britain's Ambassador to the U.S., officially demanded an explanation...
...below), the Arabs and the Jews are preparing for, or at least resigned to war. Part, but not all, of this noise is designed for outside effect, to establish bargaining positions. But the two sides are also so deeply committed emotionally that it will take great and firm statesmanship to create a peace. The big question is whether either Eden or Eisenhower is really prepared to stand firm and stay firm...
...warmed up, such criticism was inevitable. So, too, was the Republican reaction, which consisted mostly of insisting that foreign policy, as a bipartisan matter, should be placed out of bounds to partisan political debate. Thus both President Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon praised as an example of high statesmanship a recent plea by Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George for a continued "nonpartisan American foreign policy." Republican Harold Stassen, returning from three weeks in Europe, wore a pained expression as he said that Stevenson's criticisms have "raised and stirred up question marks all over Europe...
...John McAuley Palmer, 85, veteran of the Boxer Rebellion, assistant chief of staff for operations of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, adviser in the office of the chief of staff during World War II, oldest officer on active duty at his retirement in 1946, military historian (Statesmanship or War); in Washington...
...feeling of identification between the people and the President was part of a long trend. Statesmanship aside, people and President have been growing closer for a generation-unbuttoned Harding more than Wilson; buttoned, homespun Coolidge more than Harding; Hoover, the self-made great engineer in a day when almost every man dreamed he was an engineer, more than Coolidge; Roosevelt, at his fireside, more than Hoover; plain Harry Truman more than Roosevelt; and Eisenhower, America's idealistic, practical, slightly nasal voice, more than Truman. Was this trend, as John Adams would have suspected, the inevitable result of the leveling...