Word: statesmanship
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Little was heard of the I.R.A. until last year, when a new generation of young Irishmen joined its secret ranks, thirsting for adventure and impatient of their political leaders' repeated assurances that partition can be abolished "by statesmanship, not force." Their first exploit was to raid the barracks of the Royal Irish Fusiliers in Armagh, Northern Ireland, where they seized 300 guns. Shortly afterwards I.R.A. men broke into the projection rooms of two cinemas in Southern Ireland and forced the operators to flash slides on the screens proclaiming: "Join the I.R.A. We have the guns now." Hundreds joined...
...congratulate TIME for the article. The dedicated leadership, labor statesmanship and social philosophy of Walter Reuther have endeared him to the rank and file everywhere. By any standard of comparison he is the labor leader of the century...
...Presence. Presidential Envoy J. Lawton Collins, who has had more experience in soldiering than in statesmanship, reported home three weeks ago, that Diem was sure to fall, and the Vietnamese Army would not fight. But the army did fight and Diem did not fall. Back in Saigon last week, Joe Collins called an off-the-record press conference that did not stay off the record long. What South Viet Nam needs, said Collins, is a constitutional monarchy headed by Bao Dai, to provide "a thread of legality." "How are these poor people going to run a republic?" asked Collins...
...Politics are undoubtedly played pretty much the same as they were played in Lincoln's time-in Springfield, III., or in Washington, D.C. . . . "Taken all told," in the words of Huck Finn, we don't doubt that Craig still has the same chances as Lincoln to achieve statesmanship by being an honest politician...
...describing the importance of the University in the Moral Rearmamont movement. "In this age of ideologies," he said. "Harvard has a special part to play. We must create a new type of man who lives an idea capable of uniting the world. Then will come the new kind of statesmanship that we need. Surely," he concluded, "that is the real destiny of our University...