Word: tactfulness
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...important difference should recommend itself to the Government: The occupying force should consist of Negro soldiers and Negro officers, instead of brutal, arrogant, prejudiced white Marines. Intelligent Negro officers are available on the reserve list, and they could bring to their task of ending slavery a sympathy and a tact that were conspicuously missing in the American occupation of Haiti...
Naturally most of the foreign devils and all foreign correspondents were furious. An exception was U. S. Commercial Attache Julean Arnold (he and other diplomatic folk can import their luxuries duty free). With admirable tact Mr. Arnold pointed out that China has only recently come to the end of a period of customs tutelage by the Great Powers. For some 80 years they held her down to a general ad valorem duty of only 5%. Now that the young Nationalist Government has squirmed out from under this galling yoke, China might reasonably be expected to do much worse than...
...feel deeply grateful for the tact, courteousness and great earnestness with which Mr. Davis [U. S. Minister] proceeded to cope with a very difficult situation, especially by coming here, to interview President Arosemena at the risk of his life, when the firing was still going on. I am sure the people of Panama deeply appreciate his disinterested action...
...trick is to look like a "white spat boy," for diplomacy is a white spat game; but to act with inflexible firmness and more than sufficient tact. Tactfully Minister Whitehouse gave the No. 3 president an "out," explained that for him to remain in office would be contrary to "The Treaty of 1923." What the treaty.is all about was comparatively immaterial.* The No. 3 president, who had not scrupled to ignore the Guatemalan constitution, was presumably not squeamish about scraps of paper. He took 24 hours to think over the impression made on him by Minister Whitehouse, then resigned...
...administrator who would stand no nonsense. But for all his love of sport, Lord Willingdon is not young (64). Cautious observers questioned whether he had the physical strength to meet the trying task that awaits him. Murmured the London Times: "[He] will need something more vigorous than charm and tact...