Word: tactfulness
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...Gaulle and Giraud to tangle disruptively over the Liberation Committee's recent purge of elderly and ex-Vichyite officers. But the French leaders were more concerned with the war's trend, and in their concern De Gaulle won a signal diplomatic victory-still without benefit of tact. France's united front was a bid for recognition and participation in any Allied peace negotiations with Italy. Said Commissioner of Information Henri Bonnet: "I hope [the new accord] will have a good effect on ... the U.S. and Britain. . . . Nonrecognition will not prevent us from becoming stronger...
...were serving under the late, great Marshal Lyautey against the Riffs. He learned to call Charles de Gaulle mon cher after he quit the Vichyfrench governorship of Indo-China and joined the Fighting French. Now, under Georges Catroux's amiable pipe smoke, and with the help of his tact, the stubborn leaders agreed to submit their differences to a majority decision of the new Committee of Liberation...
...units participating on the Allied side. This unity had to be achieved after some initial difficulties, and it was largely the handiwork of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. As commander of the whole Allied effort, he has kept himself rigidly out of the limelight, has exercised the greatest possible tact, and has contributed many ideas (the forced march of U.S. troops from El Guettar to the extreme north was an Eisenhower conception...
Never again will an instructor of a new company use so little tact in his choice of nautical terms when he tells an E company man, "To break open a window", . . . that is, not with the high price of glass these days...
Even the supporting cast does an unusually creditable job. Paul Henreid of "Now Voyager" fame does a sympathetic job on a Czech patriot, and handles his anti-fascist speeches with meritable tact. Claude Rains is a superb Vichy superintendent of police, while Conrad Veidt does an excellent job on a stock Hollywood character--the Gestapo chief...