Word: statesmanship
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...Calvin Coolidge's Agriculture Secretary, an eminent plant geneticist and an idealist with presidential aspirations, Wallace was as appalled as anyone by the butchery. It reflected not the ideals of "any sane society," he complained, but an emergency caused by "the almost insane lack of world statesmanship" in stabilizing food prices...
...moment was ripe for statesmanship. And Reagan lived...
...aside Gaddafi (as well as that non-Arab Muslim fanatic to the east, Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini, who late last week called on Egyptians to overthrow "the dead Pharaoh's successors" and replace his government with a Khomeini-style Islamic republic), the Arabs felt betrayed by Sadat. What was statesmanship to the West was treason in their eyes. Of course, they envied him: they could not forgive him for getting back more Arab land by negotiating than they had achieved by other means. They were impatient; his patience seemed boundless. They felt he had given away his soul...
...continuing Israeli occupation of land Jordan administered from 1948 until 1967 galls, humiliates and weakens King Hussein, who has proved himself many times a staunch friend of the West. For all their own foot-dragging in the past, the Saudis have demonstrated true statesmanship-and implicitly recognized Israel's right to exist-in the way they helped mediate the current cease-fire in Lebanon. They are desperate for a U.S.-sponsored breakthrough in the Arab-Israeli conflict, largely to help them justify their own close ties with the U.S. Yet those ties are being strained anew by the determination...
...much grim news out of Great Britain. The highest unemployment figures (around 12%) since the Depression, all-out street fighting in the inner cities. Suddenly, within and without, everyone needed reminding: not only of past glories but of future possibilities. And what better reminder than a wedding-showmanship and statesmanship in high style? The whole country is invited; the world can look on. The monarchy is seen, resplendent, as what the British have long insisted that it has become: an extended, and exalted, surrogate family. "The royal scene is simply a presentation of ourselves behaving well," said Dame Rebecca West...