Word: statesmanship
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...Winston Churchill, who was at last paying considerable attention to his critics (see p. 27), would shortly move to increase India's autonomy. That was a job which, owing to the Hindu-Moslem conflict in India, as well as to Tory opposition at home, would call for real statesmanship. But, after the Gissimo's words, it seemed that Britain might tackle...
...have done one of the finest things possible to encourage statesmanship and leadership by publishing this article...
...full support to Britain a year ago. But the Congress has long insisted on some British guarantee of increased self-government for India as a condition of all-out war effort. This week, a group of Indian moderate leaders appealed to Winston Churchill for "some bold stroke of farsighted statesmanship" providing that henceforth India's "position and powers will be identical with those of other units in the British Commonwealth...
Arranging these things will call for great statesmanship. But they must be arranged for victory...
...time to lose the first and second fingers of his left hand aboard Admiral Togo's flagship Mikasa in the great battle off Tsushima in 1904. Down the years he has absorbed and fostered the morale of Japan's Navy, the crafty conservatism of Japanese naval statesmanship, pride in such things as the superiority of Japanese Navy bombings over Army bombings of Chungking, 600 miles from...