Word: statecraft
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Until last month, Baroda was a model among Indian states. The old Maharaja, the late great Sayaji Rao, Gaekwar of Baroda, put through more social legislation than any other native prince could boast. He made his grandson and heir, 35-year-old Maharaja Pratap Singh Gaekwar, study statecraft from childhood, taught him to admire progress and respect...
...previous July election, and 68% of those Germans who went to the polls voted for the Nationalist, Catholic, Social Democratic and Communist Parties. The Nazi exchequer was empty and Hitler told Goebbels he was thinking of suicide. It was then that powerful, anti-democratic Germans holding the strings of statecraft decided to jerk Hitler up into power...
...mastering the theory and tactics of the revolution. Since 1941 Edward Hallett Carr has been one of the chief editorial writers of the London Times. He brings to the task of planning a decent, lasting peace the practical experience of 20 years in the thick of British diplomacy and statecraft...
...short of the complete military surrender envisaged in Article Eight of the Atlantic Pact? Then inded we have sold ourselves to the task of carrying warfare into Europe, not to defeat Hitler, not to save England, not to release subject peoples, but to promote the additional interests of British statecraft. I do not say these are evil interests: I say they are not ours...
Uncertain Japan still struggled to revise her foreign policy in the light of the new facts of that war. For hours an imperial conference, graced on this momentous occasion by the presence of the Emperor himself, wrestled with the problems of statecraft. The conferees emerged with their decision. But the decision was a secret...