Word: statecraft
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...completely captive of the satellites. Barring a major war, there is no hope for resistance within the tightly policed state. Rumania has also been "organized for the hereafter." The now-completed takeover of the Orthodox Church (whose membership includes 90% of the population) was the neatest piece of conspiratorial statecraft in many years in the Balkans...
Politics & Statecraft. King's record as a political leader was the most uniformly successful of any democratically elected leader in modern times. Under him, the Liberal Party won five national elections. He was Prime Minister for 21 years, five months and five days, the longest term in power of any Prime Minister in the history of Britain and its Commonwealth...
...founding fathers of the U.S. borrowed many a principle and practice of statecraft. But they made a significant innovation-a total and organic separation of church & state. Most inventions need a bit of tinkering to get them working properly, and this one was, and is, no exception, as U.S. citizens could learn in detail last week from a monumental three-volume work, Church and State in the United States (Harper...
...Dean Acheson pointed out at dinner one night, the visitor's gifts only began with statecraft. Some fifty years ago, said Acheson, the muses had fought to control González' future. In the end, only four remained in the running. One touched his tongue and made him an orator, another touched his head and made him a statesman, a third touched his fingers and made him a musician. "And," said Acheson, "the fourth muse, Terpsichore, touched his feet-and I don't have to tell you what happened." González roared with laughter. After dinner...
When John Greenleaf Whittier wrote these lines, he believed, with most of his 19th Century fellow optimists, that mankind was slowly but surely working its way through history to a better world. Science, statecraft and scripture, they thought, were leading men together to the same goal-the establishment of God's kingdom upon earth...