Word: statesmanship
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...President's letter accepting Henry Wallace's resignation warmly commended his "deliberation, true wisdom, and statesmanship," got in some good licks for the New Deal farm record. But the letter was more than a political instrument. It was Mr. Roosevelt's honest estimation of the man who more than any other was responsible for the U. S. agricultural program of the last seven years...
...industrial revolution, a people physically rated, even by their own experts, as a third-class nation; on moral apathy and deafness to change of the middle and upper classes; on the leaders of England ("The profoundest wish of English statesmen of our time was to elude the responsibility of statesmanship"). "Looking ahead, one saw the face of nightmare; looking back, one saw the faces of ghosts...
...Adams narrative gives special emphasis to the two great political concerns of Britain in the 19th Century: colonies and reform. In the development of Australia, of Canada, of New Zealand, of India, Adams sees and insists on the greatness of early Victorian statesmanship, which worked out the democratic Commonwealth of Nations...
Thomas Edmund Dewey was too young, said the experts: a not-so-nice kid too big for his breeches; cocky, inexperienced both in politics and statesmanship -a ball of fire in New York, maybe, but just a city dude out where...
...Ultimatum" is the story of a Serbian officer and his doting Austrian wife, whom that intangible machine called "statesmanship" stamps as enemies after the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. The love of wife and of fatherland, faith to friend and to country, are pitched into battle: and the results are tragical, as may be expected. But they are not altogether convincing, since it is less the stupidity of war than an all around desire for self-sacrifice which brings about the final catastrophe. The piece de resistance of the show is Eric Von Stroheim's Tentenie skull, which, as Germanophobes...