Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such good will was infectious. Always easily infected, handsome "Big Ed" Stettinius, U.S. Secretary of State, earnestly told Uncle Joe that if they all worked together after the war, every house in Russia could have plumbing and electricity. Statesmanship could go no farther...
...Cannot Allow." The Stettinius excuse for F.D.R.'s tragic weakness on the Polish issue is that the Russians were already in Poland. From a statesman, such reasoning seems to applaud the bankruptcy of statesmanship. Stalin was capable of straighter talk on the subject. Said he at Potsdam: "A freely elected government in any of these [eastern European] countries would be anti-Soviet, and that we cannot allow." U.S. readers may wonder why the U.S. delegation could not have guessed that as well as Stalin...
...more & more, in the face of Britain's dwindling dollar reserves, British opinion itself was pressing for devaluation. It was argued that devaluation was inevitable anyway, and that its delay had become a "psychological" obstacle to traders in the sterling area. London's Economist summoned British "statesmanship" to meet the crisis with "imagination...
...reach the $300 billion level, said Wilson, the labor unions, which had already achieved "monopolistic" power to "dominate and control the economy," would have to exercise statesmanship. "If the unions strive only to outdo one another in their demands, and Government-by-edict enforces an endless series of wage increases without regard to industry's costs, it will lead, inevitably, to nationalization of industry...
...what the Americans want. Then make it at prices they are able and willing to pay, and package it to appeal to the American consumer. That is the way to earn dollars...This will take energetic salesmanship as well as cheap production. It is the challenge confronting the business statesmanship of Britain...