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...diplomacy is apt to be anything but diplomatic. In the eagerness of several Western nations to recognize Red China, the men who have had to pay the local price are the diplomats sent to Peking. It is a lonely life at best, but worst of all for The Netherlands chargé d'affaires...
...Liverpool haulage contractor, is a scholarly, somewhat remote man who headed the English College in Rome from 1930 to 1937. In 1938 he was appointed apostolic delegate to Britain, the first papal delegate to that country since the Reformation. In World War II Archbishop Godfrey also served as chargé d'affaires in the Polish government in exile. In 1953 he was made Archbishop of Liverpool, and three years later became Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales...
Their answer was no, but next day the President began canvassing among neighbors for possible outside help. At a palace interview, Iraq's chargé d'affaires reportedly offered Lebanon a defense treaty under which pro-Western Iraqi troops could be brought into the country...
...hasty recognition of the Chinese Communist regime eight years ago-"not to confer a compliment but to secure a convenience." But recognition saved none of Britain's $840 million of investments in China; and instead of an exchange of ambassadors, Britain has had to be content with a chargé d'affaires who got a humiliating run-around in the waiting rooms of Peking bureaucracy...
...months under famed Socialist Harold Laski ("My father wanted me to see both sides of the street''), majored in international relations at Harvard. During his junior year Jack went to Europe under the auspices of Ambassador Joe Kennedy, and in Berlin one night in 1939, U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Alex Kirk gave him a message to take to his father: world war would erupt within a week...