Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris to make them bigger. He released his report on Russia and became a U. S. headline character. Mr. Lloyd George referred to "a journey some boys were reported to have made to Russia" and flayed the Bullitt report as a "tissue of lies." The net result of Diplomat Bullitt's activities was to furnish Republican Senators additional ammunition with which to de feat ratification of the peace treaty. But for speaking his mind he became a diplomatic outcast, with every Wilsonian Democrat ascribing his behavior to personal spite and sore-headedness...
...Comrades. If they were found guilty, King George V had just put his signature to a bill empowering his Government to declare a complete embargo of Russian goods and cut off from Russia some $130,000,000 a year of her best customer's trade. Every diplomat, every reporter in Moscow fought for a seat in that blue & white room and gazed eagerly at the tables covered with red cloth where sat three sack-suited judges...
...tower of orthodoxy while honest men fell on every side for peccadillos of opinion or efficiency. Konar rose rapidly. In his apartment gathered the "true blue incorruptibles" of Communism. Last month by blind chance the Ogpu discovered that Konar was on too excellent terms with "a prominent foreign diplomat." When police came for him, he told them he need only telephone Ogpu headquarters. They showed him the Ogpu signature on the warrant and he buried his head in his hands. On trial, he admitted he was Polashchuk. He admitted Konar-Polash-chuk had been selling out Russia to Poland...
...Soviet citadel his Embassy flaunts life-size oil paintings of King George & Queen Mary in their coronation robes. In Moscow the Ambassador's young men never hesitate to express on Communism, its leaders and practices, opinions which would cause instant arrest for any but a foreign diplomat. Britons are not popular in Moscow...
DEATH IN THE SENATE-"Diplomat"-Covici, Friede ($2). Sprightly Dennis Tyler again pierces the mask of official Washington, explains two catastrophes, prevents a third...