Word: cordiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were internationalists and consistent supporters of Mr. Hull. They had written him a respectful letter requesting "some explanation of your puzzling silence" about concrete U.S. foreign policy. After 150 minutes the 21 Republicans emerged wrapped in gloom. Said Maine's Robert Hale, onetime Rhodes scholar: "Mr. Hull was cordial and courteous, but I left with the same impression that I had when I went in-that the Administration has no foreign policy." New York's Bernard W. Kearney was briefer: "No hits, no runs, no errors." Others recalled an occasion when John Hay was Secretary of State...
...Minister to Colombia, got an unhappy welcome when he arrived at the Bogota airport. Because of a Foreign Office bungle, no Colombian dignitaries met him. Uninvited local Communists infested the airport, carried his baggage, muscled into his news pictures, acutely embarrassed Mr. Rezanov. The Bogotá press was generally cordial. Privately, Colombians wondered why the new Russian Legation had a staff of 34 while Colombia was represented at Moscow by a single, lonely Minister. Probable reason: the Soviet Union wants to train diplomats for use in other Latin American countries which may recognize it eventually.* As yet, Minister Rezanov...
...Marrakech in French Morocco last week, General de Gaulle had an apparently cordial talk with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, just recovered from pneumonia...
Although his face was lined and showed clearly the strain of his position, the 51-year old diplomat seemed cordial and was not at all reluctant to speak of the Far East crisis. He smoked continually but by no means nervously...
...Pacific powers expect to wage their war without the present help of Russia. Joseph Stalin is carefully staying out of the Pacific war. But the atmosphere at Teheran could hardly have been so cordial if the Pacific decisions had been unknown or unpleasant...