Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doughboy Colonel. James Van Fleet has little knack for the soldier-statesmanship of an Eisenhower or a MacArthur. He is first and foremost a combat soldier who has thoroughly learned his trade. In World War II, under the incomparable George Patton, he learned the value of speed, surprise, audacity. In his imposing collection of medals the one he likes best is the Combat Infantryman's Badge...
...industrial workers. Kaiser Wilhelm I had proclaimed: "The cure of social ills must be sought not exclusively in the repression of Social Democratic excesses, but simultaneously in the positive advancement of the welfare of the working classes." This state assumption of responsibility has been interpreted by some as farsighted statesmanship, by others as the embryo of the totalitarian state. In any case, it caught on. Today more have some form of public health insurance. In the catalogue...
...sorely needed plug for the U.N. Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Shertok voiced a rather astonishing accolade to Egypt's sybaritic King Farouk: "Tribute must be paid to the realism and courage of the Egyptian monarch and government, their breadth of vision and . . . bold statesmanship...
...Bunche. Like a solicitous duenna, he herded the delegates in & out of his personal suite, beamed on their cautious handshakes, protected them jealously from the press. He had also personally drafted the agenda of the conference and the armistice preamble, which one Israeli delegate called "a brilliant piece of statesmanship." At week's end, Bunche, still hard at work, was leaving the optimism to his aides. Cried one of them: "I expect to be on my way to Geneva by the middle of next week." Said Bunche: "We still have the most difficult hurdles to take...
Reston then singled out Dewey's charge that "Republican statesmanship" had saved EGA from being "just another foreign-relief handout." Said Reston: "Secretary Marshall's speech at Harvard, announcing the ERP, emphasized that the United States could not go further until the European nations themselves got together and defined and devised a program that would bring about the recovery of Europe...