Word: statesmanship
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...perhaps the best proof of the Marshal's totalitarian sympathies lies in his choice of a No. 2 man to carry out the hard, detailed work of statesmanship that an 85-year-old soldier can hardly be expected to do. When last winter he dismissed Vice Premier Pierre Laval, whose program differed from the Marshal's only in its outspokenness, it was widely interpreted as an anti-Nazi gesture. It was also commonly said that the Marshal had ousted the only French emissary with whom the Nazis would deal. But in Vice Premier Admiral Jean Frangois Darlan...
...first time since he became Vice President, Henry Agard Wallace last week put on the toga of statesmanship to speak...
...Axis partners were thus confronted had been seven years in the making. It was a policy which, after a hundred years of faults and fumbling, was designed to make fast friends of 125,000,000 other Americans who had never before quite trusted us." Wertenbaker credits the complementary statesmanship of three very different Americans for this success-the hemispheric consciousness of President Roosevelt, the simple candor of Cordell Hull and the behind-the-scenes effectiveness of Sumner Welles. Says Author Wertenbaker: "The President is the idea man, Hull translates the ideas into policy, Welles attends to the details." At Lima...
Vague and irrational objections should not stand in the way of a humanity which is combined with realists statesmanship. Too many Poles and Finns and Dutch and French are coming to realize that their allegiance to democracy doesn't relieve hunger and suffering; that gulls and crows, disease and empty stomachs, don't make a good basis for hope and endurance till final victory. American has the power, the right, and the duty to assert her role as helper of the helpless...
Huff-puffed by dazzled Republicans were passages from Henry A. Wallace's Statesmanship and Religion (Round Table Press, 1934; $2): "The only people of this century who seem to have a comparable earnestness [to 16th-Century Reformers Luther, Calvin, Knox] are such men as Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler.*... I am inclined to agree with [British Historian Richard Henry] Tawney and [the late German Economist Max] Weber that capitalism is a rather natural outgrowth of Protestantism; arid I would go farther in saying that socialism, communism and fascism are in turn rather natural developments from capitalism. Spiritually, they...