Word: statesmanship
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...maintained that the two great successes of western statesmanship in dealing with Asia's desire for freedom have been (1) America's policy in fixing an advance date for Philippine independence and (2) Britain's policy for India, Pakistan, and Burma...
...Needed: Statesmanship. Since higher corporate taxes tend to build themselves into the permanent tax structure, many businessmen probably prefer an excess profits tax which would end with the emergency. But the emergency which the U.S. now faces, as Harvard's Sumner H. Slichter pointed out, may last for a decade or more. During that time the U.S. must expand all of its resources in a production race with Russia. "We must see that our productive capacity grows rapidly," says Slichter. "An excess profits tax which discourages the growth of productive capacity ... could help us lose the contest. An excess...
...turning point in our attitude came with our abandonment of intervention and our adoption of the Good Neighbor policy. It was an act of statesmanship such as has rarely been displayed by any world power. The era of good feeling that followed was its reward...
...physical exertions here are so attractive as to obliterate completely his intellectual achievements." Connally took one last swing at his opposition. The Republicans were trying to kill the whole foreign-aid bill by making an issue of Point Four, he cried. Taft's arguments were an example of statesmanship "with a little 's.' " As for Donnell, Connally scoffed, he would not be against Point Four after November. "As soon as he gets out of the woods in the present campaign he will see a light . . . But until November he is going to be as tight as Dick...
...Socialist government wanted nothing to do with the non-socialist economies on the Continent. Long before the Foreign Ministers met in London last week, it was amply clear that the British would not assume leadership of Western Europe. The Schuman plan-the most important act of Western statesmanship since the launching of the Marshall Plan-was a totally unexpected assertion that France could and would assume the leadership. It swept into the brains of Western policymakers like a gust of fresh wind into a musty study long unaired. It gave genuine promise that the idea of Western European integration would...