Word: statesmanship
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...This year, said Sir William, under a new proposal for a 50-50 profit split, Iran would have received about $140 million. In short, with oil and money so plentiful, Anglo-Iranian might well have averted the trouble in Iran by a more liberal use of American-style industrial statesmanship...
...shrewd Truman or the blundering Truman who last week nominated General Mark Clark as the first full-fledged U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican? Or was this the act of the third Harry Truman, the one who on rare occasions disregards petty politics and shows glimmerings of the statesmanship that his office has thrust upon him? Whichever way it was interpreted, Truman had kicked up the hot ashes of a long-smoldering controversy...
There is virtually no responsible statesmanship; most Middle Eastern leaders are either anti-Western or ineffectual (see box). The U.S. is doing little to help get the situation under control; the only people who stand to profit without making a move are the Russians. Egypt's masters have on occasion proved themselves as ineffectual as any of the others. But, by virtue of past glory and present intellectual influence, Egypt is looked on by many people in the Arab world as a potential leader. Whether or not Egypt can ever be fit for that role, the country holds...
...conference tables of Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam. It amounts to a ransom for an appeasement policy which this Administration has pursued in Asia ... a mortgage on the life of every American for blunders made . . . [Now] we must ask ourselves if we [can] substitute billions for leadership, bullets for statesmanship...
Prosperity. German trade unions have virtually dropped the class-warfare creed. In the coal and steel industries the unions are jealous of their newly won right to share in management's decisions. Labor leaders are striding into statesmanship; they support the Schuman Plan, German rearmament. By choosing Christian Fette as chairman to succeed the late venerated Hans Böckler, the unions have affirmed their political independence. Stern, stubby Chairman Fette, 56, will not dance when the doctrinaire Socialist Party pipes; his business is practical gains for German workers...