Word: statesmanship
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...speeches offer a classic contrast between politics and statesmanship. The very qualities that made them historically significant severly limited their vote-getting appeal. Stevenson did not talk down to the voters. If anything, he was too humble. The voters, unprepared to govern themselves, wanted a strong figure to whom they might entrust their futures in an hour of national crisis. His speeches showed him to be shy, modest, sensitive. His only charisma was that of the mind...
...unfortunate that speeches like this do not win elections in America. But as examples of statesmanship, they have earned, "an imperishable page in the history of the Republic...
With weeping fits, fainting spells, petulant threats to resign, and swift strokes of summary statesmanship, Iran's Premier Mossadegh for nearly two turbulent years had manipulated all before him-the Parliament, the popular will, and the earnest but weak Shah. Last week, the young (33) Shah of Shahs spilled some tears himself, and it was fanatical old Mohammed Mossadegh who had to gasp for breath and fight for his political life...
After six years as President of Mexico, Miguel Alemán was still much too active at 50 to retire to the somnolent dignity of elder-statesmanship. As a private citizen jealous of his privacy, Alemán left the capital to live on his ranches in northern Mexico. An office was set up in his name in Mexico City, but it had the hushed calm of a mortuary. His real business affairs were apparently being conducted in seemly privacy by close associates whom he had raised to wealth and power. Except for an occasional speech, the ex-President dropped...
...British were delighted. "Only a fellow with a real understanding of statesmanship could have done it," said a Colonial Office man. All the same, Whitehall reserved the three vital ministries of Defense, Finance and Foreign Affairs for the white British members of the cabinet...