Word: statesmanship
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Huff-puffed by dazzled Republicans were passages from Henry A. Wallace's Statesmanship and Religion (Round Table Press, 1934; $2): "The only people of this century who seem to have a comparable earnestness [to 16th-Century Reformers Luther, Calvin, Knox] are such men as Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler.*... I am inclined to agree with [British Historian Richard Henry] Tawney and [the late German Economist Max] Weber that capitalism is a rather natural outgrowth of Protestantism; arid I would go farther in saying that socialism, communism and fascism are in turn rather natural developments from capitalism. Spiritually, they...
...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...