Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...temporary capital in Chungking the Generalissimo whirled through a week of high statesmanship. In a brief ceremony at the National Government building, he signed the United Nations Charter. When he put down his brush, he made his characteristic short, quick bow, murmured: "Hao hao, hao hao-very good, very good!" He looked deeply satisfied...
...Leader. The new Premier had scant background in politics or statesmanship. But his royal presence at the head of the Government could be a safeguard for the Imperial institution, and it might allay popular unrest. In the Japanese mind the Prince's relationship to the Emperor is threefold. He is Hirohito's cousin, because he is the grandson of a brother of one of Hirohito's great-grandfathers. He is Hirohito's uncle, because he is married to the sister of Hirohito's father (Emperor Taisho). He is Hirohito's inlaw, because...
Wanted: A Policy. Such a policy, apparently, has not yet been formulated. Or, if it has, it is still a deep secret. U.S. military policy is clear: blow upon blow until all resistance is crushed. But the application of shrewd statesmanship might save the final enforcement of that policy -and countless U.S. lives...
...until that step of high statesmanship had been achieved would India's Viceroy be free to turn to another project -a biography of Belisarius, Byzantine conqueror of the North African Vandals...
...cinema industry in December, 1921, when these and other pioneer cinemagnates asked Postmaster General William Harrison Hays to become their leader at a salary of $100,000 a year. Since his acceptance a month later, Will Hays has achieved what Raymond Moley considers a marvelous record of industrial statesmanship. In this history, ex-New Dealer Moley mainly confines himself to an objective, minutely detailed recitation of facts and figures, but an introduction clearly states his point: cinema's self-regulation is a splendid example of how business can stay out of the government's "paralyzing" clutches...