Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Ward considers the Marshall Plan a magnificent and unprecedented gesture of statesmanship and generosity. But she points out that even if it succeeds to the full extent of its blueprint, it will be unable to remedy the basic imbalance (she thinks that by 1951 Western Europe will still buy $13 billion worth more goods than it can sell in the U.S.). The long-range cure, and the long-range bulwark against Communism, must be a supreme European effort toward Western Union...
What lights does Congress steer by? By & large, the Senate's foreign-policy course had been set by the stars of mature statesmanship. Despite a few erratic zigzags, the House had followed the Senate's lead. Then last week a majority of House members suddenly abandoned the charts and seemed to head for the rocks...
Hope in the Morning. With the rising sun, the sudden glare of urgent, unreasoning hope spread. Said a Greek government official: "This may mean the end of the civil war." Said the Manchester Guardian: ". . . An act of statesmanship." In Paris, Canard Enchainé kidded happily: "General de Gaulle has sent a message to Maurice Thorez, saying the door remains wide open . . . Gaston Palewski [one of the general's chief aides] has stated he is ready to engage in conversations with Jacques Duclos' chambermaid . . ." Newsboys brandished their headlines like victorious flags. "No more cold war," cried Franc-Tireur...
Focus of Confidence. It is a time for greatness, but greatness is unpredictable in any President. More exactly, it is a time for statesmanship in the White House and Arthur Vandenberg is clearly and predictably a statesman. Thus he is esteemed in all quarters except those envenomed by the Chicago Tribune or perverted by fellow travelers. In New Hampshire, for example, many Deweymen and Stassenmen were second-choice Vandenbergmen. In sum, the private conversations of many GOP wise men were expressed by Pundit Walter Lippmann. Said he: "There is no doubt that Vandenberg is now the man on whom...
...Pause That Cools. Usually, when the convention deadlocked, it adjourned for a few days. Indeed, the frequent adjournments seem in retrospect to have revealed almost as much statesmanship as the measures themselves. They cooled tempers, or they permitted vaguely formed ideas to crystallize. Moreover, the late arrivals among the delegates were new reinforcements for one group or another. They were like substitutes sent in at a critical moment in a football game, and in many respects they were, like Roger Sherman of Connecticut, more effective than the members of the first team...