Word: statesmanship
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...Attorney General Cummings, fearful that the case was going against him, made an unscheduled second argument in which he praised abrogation of the gold clauses as a piece of great and well-considered statesmanship, but offered no new arguments to show that the Government's action was legal...
...next autumn at the latest he must fight a Canadian election, and everyone has been saying he must lose for the same reason that Mr. Hoover inevitably lost: the people are sore. Last week Mr. Bennett decided that he would not accept defeat without trying the last refuge of statesmanship, demagoguery. Overnight the leader of Canada's Conservative Party turned such a complete somersault that the Conservative Montreal Gazette said he had "done violence to every Conservative principle." More friendly Canadian commentators gave the Premier credit for having ably aped President Roosevelt...
...eyes are blinded by selfish nationalism to the pleas of all classes for peace. Saito's uncompromising demands for parity, Benes' threat of war in the Chamber of the League, Laval's antagonizing oratory, are all evidences of the failure of current diplomats to grasp to broader demands of statesmanship. Indeed, until they do learn to view the narrow policies of egoistic nationalism in the light of world harmony, international conferences are doomed to be sources of national jealousies rather than effective agencies for peace...
England. King Henry II of England (1133-89) was a coarse, bull-necked man of capricious temper, with a talent for statesmanship and a passion for territorial expansion. Deciding to correct abuses on the part of the ecclesiastical courts, he began well by declaring at Clarendon Palace his "Constitutions of Clarendon" which imposed reasonable restraints, but he fell out with Thomas a Becket, the up-&-coming young churchman whom he had promoted to be Archbishop of Canterbury. The resulting imbroglio with the Church was too hot for King Henry to handle; he ate crow and purchased absolution from the Pope...
...must this subject be taboo? Are we not entitled to discuss and weigh the physical fitness of our public servants as well as their morals, patriotism and statesmanship? If not, then...we can safely prophesy that this generation will not pass away before a despot sits in the White House and we can righteously withhold our pity from the milksops, nincompoops and sycophants, who then make up the population, as unworthy of any other fate than to bear the cruel hand of oppression...