Word: fairmindedness
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Thant, reiterating his fears of a wider war in Asia, invoked Hanoi's wrath by suggesting an eminently fairminded, three-step formula for ending the war: 1) "a general standstill truce," to be followed in a few weeks by 2) "preliminary talks" between Washington and Hanoi, possibly refereed by...
The British tend to think of their politics as urbane and fairminded. In large measure, they are. But at times the heirs of Cromwell and Pitt are apt to be more virulent than the heirs of Jackson and Truman. British political leaders can deftly cut each other's throats...
He has been a firm supporter of U.S. policies, though not always without reservations. When the Cuban crisis broke, he muttered: "I hope the Americans know what they are up to." Later, however, he rebuked British anti-Americanism: "The British people must recognize who are their friends and who are...
Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, in my considered opinion, is partially wrong in his recent public statement concerning the Civil Rights struggle and the role of white liberals in this struggle. Mr. Powell is right, if he means that the Negro must stand primarily on his own personal and collective powers...
I would rather think that the principle that "things are neither all black nor white, but shades of gray" is applicable to the problem of full Civil Rights for the Negro in America. The same Civil Rights that the Negro is struggling to realize through constitutional processes, are the same...