Word: statesmanship
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...Abhorring war as a chosen way to balk the purposes of those who threaten us, we hold it to be the first task of statesmanship to develop the strength that will deter the forces of aggression and promote the conditions of peace...
Second Generation. At 45, Reuther (rhymes with Luther) is the best known and most resourceful leader in the C.I.O. His ability is not questioned, but many labor (and industry) leaders deplore his tendency toward labor statesmanship, a phrase sometimes used in labor circles with a heavy charge of sarcasm. Though he can be intensely practical when necessary, Reuther is an inveterate shaper of far-reaching "Reuther plans," which to most labor leaders seem to deal with matters outside labor's province. His tendency is to make a specific union issue a springboard for broad social and economic questions...
...return to some of the autocratic or paternalistic methods of dealing with employees . . . practiced in the past. We have learned a lot ... in recent years . . . and we dare not step backward." Said N.A.M.'s Managing Director Earl Bunting: "Self-interest dictates the highest order of industrial statesmanship ... in the public interest...
...Start Buying." NAMsters felt strongly that industrial statesmanship calls for "trade, not aid" in the nation's dealing abroad. N.A.M., which years ago was a prime backer of high tariffs, seemed to agree with such other business groups as the Detroit Board of Commerce (TIME, Nov. 17) that it is time for a change. Said Jersey Standard's Vice President John R. Suman, a top man in N.A.M.'s foreign policymaking: "As we stop giving and start buying more from our friends abroad, we will be helping them along the road to economic recovery...
...know why the State Department should fall in with the red-hunters but we suspect it was pushed. This is an election year, and although President Truman has attacked the McCarran-McCarthy sort of statesmanship constantly, he is too clever a politician to permit the State Department to risk giving the Republicans more ammunition for their campaign...