Word: statesmanship
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...piece of statesmanship it offended at once the proponents of the more forthright B2H2 Resolution (TIME, March 22). Beside it the mild "Mackinac Charter," adopted by the Republicans a month ago, seemed now monumentally grand. Minor Statesman Connally explained feebly: "The best possible . . . that could be secured. Unity and harmony are vital if the Senate is to pass a resolution by a substantial majority...
Lines of Force. Probably no aspect of the war has been the subject of as much talk, gossip, punditry, newspaper footage and parlor statesmanship as "What Will Russia Do?" Actually, Russia's basic policy is not ambiguous or mysterious: it is merely alternative. Russia is in a position to choose: 1) full collaboration with the U.S. and Great Britain if they meet her demands; or 2) a lone-wolf course, excluding the U.S.'and Britain, but including an arrangement for and with a pro-Russian Germany. The problems are not simple. Among the many specific lines of force...
...will take much more education than H.E. shells and slit trenches to produce the postwar millennium . . . where nine million new veterans will be intelligent, cosmopolitan, informed voters for strong, fearless statesmanship...
...think a little. The noise of H.E. shells exploding a few yards from him has awakened him from political lethargy. After we have won this war, nine million American boys are going to crawl out of their last slit trench and cast nine million intelligent votes . . . [for] strong fearless statesmanship...
...record was a curiously uneven document. It came into being as the people's answer to the wretched 77th, which had botched and boggled its way into history, cursed from coast to coast for its pensions-for-Congressmen, its personal X-cards for gas, its lack of statesmanship...