Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guadalcanal campaign, I celebrate these symptoms of vision and realistic idealism among veterans of World War II. This time we may rise above nationalistic and racialistic hysteria and above the familiar and disgraceful Legion lobbyism. We may demand, by virtue of our veteran power, instead, the kind of statesmanship that will indefinitely postpone World War No. III. It is high time...
...great quantities of goods which the industrial machine will be able to produce. The chief danger will come in the period of transition, as wages and prices fluctuate, seeking their postwar levels. It is in this area that the U.S. will need the best and surest of economic statesmanship...
...piece of statesmanship it offended at once the proponents of the more forthright B2H2 Resolution (TIME, March 22). Beside it the mild "Mackinac Charter," adopted by the Republicans a month ago, seemed now monumentally grand. Minor Statesman Connally explained feebly: "The best possible . . . that could be secured. Unity and harmony are vital if the Senate is to pass a resolution by a substantial majority...
...struggle was long and costly. After it ended, Molotov was rewarded with the Premiership, which he held for eleven turbulent years (1930-41). During these years, he graduated from machine politics to statesmanship. He fathered the collectivization of Russia's farms, helped to put through the first two Five-Year Plans, worked on the new Constitution...
Lines of Force. Probably no aspect of the war has been the subject of as much talk, gossip, punditry, newspaper footage and parlor statesmanship as "What Will Russia Do?" Actually, Russia's basic policy is not ambiguous or mysterious: it is merely alternative. Russia is in a position to choose: 1) full collaboration with the U.S. and Great Britain if they meet her demands; or 2) a lone-wolf course, excluding the U.S.'and Britain, but including an arrangement for and with a pro-Russian Germany. The problems are not simple. Among the many specific lines of force...