Word: talleyrand
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...April 3, 1965 issue of The New Republic, Professor Morgenthau entered the Vietnam debate in earnest with an article on "Why U.S. Policy in Asia is Wrong." An admirer of Richelieu, Talleyrand, and Bismark, he could hardly be accused of starry-eyed idealism, and his name had been associated for many years with the power-conscious realist school of international relations. His central argument was that we were on the verge of entering a global anti-Communist crusade which would inevitably involve us in a disastrous war with China. In contrast to the doctrinaire emotionalism of a crusade, Morgenthau pleaded...
Full Stocking. France's monumental diplomatist of the 19th century was Talleyrand, who, said Mirabeau, would sell his soul for money, "and he would be right, for he would be exchanging dung for gold." Where Richelieu spoke for a powerful and united France, Talleyrand's 19th century role was most often like De Gaulle's: to make the world pay heed to a beaten, broken France. Superbly confident, cool under the worst conditions, Talleyrand once sat calmly through an hour-long tirade by Napoleon Bonaparte and heard himself called everything from a liar and a traitor...
...Foreign Minister to the restored monarchy, Talleyrand played the great powers against each other so skillfully at the Congress of Vienna that he frustrated every attempt to form a coalition against France. Though personally corrupt, Talleyrand's diplomatic bond was rarely broken, and he rigorously obeyed the most important rule of successful negotiation: good faith...
...Class. Couve de Murville is in the tradition of his famous predecessors. He shares with Richelieu a mastery of detail and an acute sense of the true political situation, and possesses much of the glacial calm and stiff self-control of Talleyrand. So far, he has been the nearly flawless tactician of De Gaulle's grand strategy with its goals of 1) primacy in Europe, 2) increasing independence from the U.S., and 3) emergence as leader of the world's third force...
Inside a Magnum. Guy was raised in a mansion that once was Talleyrand's and later became European headquarters for the Marshall Plan. Today, in an 18th century town house that once belonged to a niece of Napoleon, he lives with his auburn-haired second wife Marie Helene, 32. (When he left his first wife for Catholic Marie Hélène seven years ago, Guy became the first head of a Rothschild house ever to marry a Christian, had to resign the presidency of France's Jewish Community in the ensuing scandale.) The walls of their...