Word: statesmanship
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...writing off the Far East at one moment and at almost the next finding our sons fighting and dying in Korea? Must we at one time woo the Soviets as though they could be trusted, and then fall into hysterical fear of them? You and I know statesmanship can do better than that...
...notice that if they don't get together on a peace treaty soon, Austria will appeal to the United Nations General Assembly for "the freedom that is her due." Inability to do justice to Austria is a prize example of the weakness of post-World War II statesmanship. So far, in the past five years, the Big Four have held 258 meetings on the subject-all futile...
...awfully easy to 'demagogue' in favor of economy and against what is scornfully referred to as 'foreign aid,'" said Truman. "Congressional action on our Mutual Security Program will be a real test of statesmanship...
Southward Ho. For all his business statesmanship, General Wood has not shown the same insight and judgment in political ventures. As boss of the America First Committee in the early days of World War II, Wood gathered together some sincere men who thought they could keep the U.S. out of the war. But the committee also attracted a rag, tag & bobtail of anti-Semites, pro-Nazis and others whom Wood now sadly recalls as "crackpots." Since those days, Wood has tempered his economic nationalism and is no longer sure that the Americas can let the rest of the world...
Barriers to Be Broken. The Schuman Plan, perhaps the most imaginative postwar act of European statesmanship, is intended to bind the six West European nations into a single U.S.-size "coal and steel community," able to produce 220 million tons of coal and 38 million tons of steel each year. Within this vast integrated market (total pop. 155 million) there will be no customs duties on coal and steel shipments, and miners and steelworkers will be able to move freely without passports or visas. A supranational High Authority of nine "stateless technocrats" (no more than two from any one country...