[Redbook1:145][19700505:1815d]{Statesmanship
and Politics}[5th May 1970]
Tuesday 5th May
1970 6.15pm [continued]
(L) Talleyrand, I
am told, said that “the art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and
to expedite its occurrence.”
The art of
politics consists largely of foreseeing the inevitable and making it seem as
though
(a)
it is right
and (b) you have done it.
[BT, killed while filming
abroad last year, gave an entertaining and irritating account of this, I think
at UI: on some domestic committee, they discovered soft loo paper was to be
introduced, so began to press strongly for its introduction. <870808>]
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