Word: statesmanship
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...commercial buying, so that she now buys $135,000,000 per year more goods from the U. S. than she sells to that nation; and sells $345,000,000 more to Great Britain than she buys from the Mother Country. 4) A conspicuous instance of Canadian talent for steadygoing statesmanship has been the Dominion's handling of the liquor problem. The British North America Act* was so drawn that the Canadian Federal authority has control over liquor manufacture and export, the provincial authorities over sale. Thus a majority of Canadians may not decree that an individual province shall...
...action is improbable. But thus to confuse further an already delicate issue would seem extremely unwise. How the matter will be settled remains to be seen, but it appears that Russia has been placed in a much more awkward position than Poland, and it will probably require very acute statesmanship to save the Soviet from discredit both at home and abroad...
Hundreds of American lives had been sacrificed to German submarine warfare before the United States entered the World War, and ten years later we can not be entirely sure that we acted rightly by so doing. Statesmanship is not entirely an affair to do with the life of every citizen who happens to get caught between two fires...
...Republic approached the question with dignity and understanding. In an editorial, "A Catholic President?" the New Republic says: "If Governor Smith is to have any chance for the [Democratic] nomination, he cannot continue for long to remain silent on questions about which his Catholicism may bias his American statesmanship. . . . Governor Smith can surely make it plain that he is willing to answer any honest and pertinent question about the relationship between his religion and his politics. That is the only way to lay the ghost of the Catholic menace. . . . Not until it is as easy to discuss Catholicism...
...undoubtedly too much to expect American politics to turn back toward the great tradition of English statesmanship set by Peel and Gladstone, which set principle before party, reform before office, or toward the precedent set by the first President of the United States who intentionally gave up the reins of power at the end of his second term. But it is an insult to the electorate to allow mere vote-getting to be so brazen...