Word: statesmanship
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...Wood withdrew to digest his reports, the President called a White House conference of members from both parties. To them he would put his ideas, weigh their opinions and objections. The decision called for all the statesmanship he possessed. He could risk everything now on one smashing fight to repeal the entire act-which his advisers held would be an enormous boost to the morale of all the world. Or he could move as he has been moving, step by step, whittling the act's barriers away one by one. The first choice would involve great risks. Even defeat...
...license. Importers Mitsui, for instance, could still buy oil from Standard Oil on dollar credits exchanged through the South American branches of National City Bank, for instance-but only with a license. Hints came down that the license business at the Treasury would be as indefatigably polite as Japanese statesmanship, but also just as reluctant to redress wrongs...
Born at St. Charles, Mo., three years before the Civil War, Editor Johns studied at Princeton, was a legman on the Princetonian when Woodrow Wilson was editor. Meeting Wilson years later, Johns remarked: "You taught me all I know about journalism, and I taught you all you know about statesmanship." Said Wilson: "You may be right. I used in my last speech something you wrote for the Princetonian." After leaving Princeton, he worked for a while on the old Philadelphia News, founded and edited a paper in his home town...
...East Indies. He had been politely informed last fortnight that The Netherlands East Indies had not the least idea of allowing Japan increased shipments of rubber, oil and tin. Speaking over the telephone to the Tokyo press, Commissioner Yoshizawa said: "The choice before us would seem to be either statesmanship or physical force...
...Japan's advocates of statesmanship were anything but acquiescent. They had to see the "peace bloc"-especially Russia's participation in it-before they would believe it. They were rapidly convinced that the China "Incident" had been disastrous and costly enough without tackling The Netherlands East Indies. They were inclined to believe The Netherlands East Indies threat that, if necessary, every oil well, pipeline and refinery would be blown sky-high before the Japanese could get at them. They were also aware that the Japanese might never have even a chance to attack the Indies, that...