Word: statesmanship
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...more & more, in the face of Britain's dwindling dollar reserves, British opinion itself was pressing for devaluation. It was argued that devaluation was inevitable anyway, and that its delay had become a "psychological" obstacle to traders in the sterling area. London's Economist summoned British "statesmanship" to meet the crisis with "imagination...
...what the Americans want. Then make it at prices they are able and willing to pay, and package it to appeal to the American consumer. That is the way to earn dollars...This will take energetic salesmanship as well as cheap production. It is the challenge confronting the business statesmanship of Britain...
Doughboy Colonel. James Van Fleet has little knack for the soldier-statesmanship of an Eisenhower or a MacArthur. He is first and foremost a combat soldier who has thoroughly learned his trade. In World War II, under the incomparable George Patton, he learned the value of speed, surprise, audacity. In his imposing collection of medals the one he likes best is the Combat Infantryman's Badge...
...industrial workers. Kaiser Wilhelm I had proclaimed: "The cure of social ills must be sought not exclusively in the repression of Social Democratic excesses, but simultaneously in the positive advancement of the welfare of the working classes." This state assumption of responsibility has been interpreted by some as farsighted statesmanship, by others as the embryo of the totalitarian state. In any case, it caught on. Today more have some form of public health insurance. In the catalogue...
...sorely needed plug for the U.N. Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok voiced a rather astonishing accolade to Egypt's sybaritic King Farouk: "Tribute must be paid to the realism and courage of the Egyptian monarch and government, their breadth of vision and . . . bold statesmanship...