Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seaboard's cellar door into the Middle East opened only after nearly two years of patient palaver in Afghanistan's moun tain capital of Kabul, in Geneva and in Berlin. Able diplomat in these negotiations was Charles Calmer Hart, oldtime Washington correspondent of the Portland Oregonian, U. S. Minister to Albania un der President Coolidge, Minister to Persia under President Hoover. Then the only trained newsman in the diplomatic service, subtle, cheerful Charlie Hart provided the State Department with some of its best official reading in his reports on such mat ters as the development started by Stand...
Told he might be offered a reward, well-trained little Diplomat Alonso exclaimed: "A reward for what-doing my duty? . . . Give it in food to needy families or in toys to poor children...
...position as a diplomat has been built on eschewing all pretensions, by sticking very quietly and moderately to his point. His State Department does not stand high even by U. S. standards. Nearly all his Ambassadors are colorless and mediocre. There is not a Page, a Herrick, even a Dawes among them. He has no Under Secretary of State whatever since William Phillips was sent to Rome. The ablest man he had to leave behind him when he sailed to Buenos Aires was Assistant Secretary R. Walton Moore, who, able as he may be, is nearing 80. Yet by force...
...short hour after the new constitution had been formally accepted by the moguls of Moscow, the Soviet diplomat was introduced by Sidney P. Simpson, professor of Law, and ardently defended his country's latest rules and regulations against attacks from "mutually contradictory critics who interpret it only as they should like...
...original pledge," the diplomat continued, "was to transform a backward agrarian country into an advanced, industrial nation, completely capable of protecting its firmly established socialist economy. Today this is a reality...