Word: statesmanship
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...people, as well as to the diplomats, Jimmy Byrnes said that the "development of sympathetic understanding" between the two great powers was "the paramount task of statesmanship." That, he pledged, was the course of a "patient but firm" U.S. policy...
Your article on President Conant of Harvard [TIME, Sept. 23] is the most encouraging political news in the period since the untimely death of our great leader Franklin D. Roosevelt. For an era in which the emphasis will be on science and statesmanship, James Bryant Conant represents the best which America can offer for its highest position...
...London Times also delivered itself of some occasional thoughts: "Britain, as much as any nation of the modern world, has learned the Roman lesson and followed in the Roman path. It may be fanciful to imagine that any afflatus of high statesmanship passed from Caesar to his noble and valiant adversary Cassivellaunus, or that by any mystical communion a spark of the Virgilian light of empire was tended through the centuries in Merlin's cave. Yet somehow the grand ideals of Roman dominion have not been lost in the modern world: jus, the conception of a law that should...
...hand, to enforce with the utmost strictness the terms of the Versailles Treaty, and, on the other hand, want to maintain Germany in a condition where she can be a military bulwark against Russian Bolshevism. These two attitudes cannot be reconciled except by the exercise of the most farseeing statesmanship; and I doubt whether the men who are now directing the affairs of Europe are farseeing statesmen...
...Senator Claghorn on the Fred Allen show (TIME, Dec. 31), Kenny Delmar has been something more than sensational. Last week, after eight months burlesquing Southern statesmanship, Senator Claghorn was far and away the best comic character of the 1945-46 season...