Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best linguist in the U. S. Diplomatic Service is probably U. S. Minister to Jugoslavia Dr. John Dyneley Prince who prides himself on being able to talk with almost any other diplomat in the latter's native tongue. Once, at a Belgrade diplomatic soiree, Dr. Prince realized that he was stumped, could not talk to the Albanian Minister in Albanian. Casually they chatted in Turkish. Later the Albanian Minister said with difficulty to a U. S. matron in Albanian English: "What a strange you Americans are! What a silly! You hire a Turk to be your Minister to Jugoslavia...
William Phillips of Boston, Harvard Overseer and career diplomat, to be Under Secretary of State. (Confirmed by the Senate...
...grey, gaunt man with downcast eyes and stooped shoulders, Cordell Hull has been moving about the Capitol for 24 years in studious preoccupation. Only his Congressional intimates know his unspectacular worth. He has never had any practical experience as a diplomat but he has read every decision handed down by the World Court. He refuses to wear spats and carry a cane, but can recite by heart every trade barrier the world over. Laconic, when asked the time he will silently exhibit his watch instead of reading it himself...
...assist Secretary Hull in running the State Department, two names were prominent last week-William Phillips and Raymond Moley. Mr. Phillips is a longtime career diplomat. As envoy he has represented the U. S. in the Netherlands, Belgium and Canada, served two years (1922-24) as Undersecretary of State. He is a protocol (procedure) expert. Professor Moley, head of the Roosevelt "Brain Trust" has been the new President's chief adviser on War Debts since accompanying him to the first White House conference with President Hoover...
That night, while the four Majesties banqueted at Sinaia, Rumania's greatest diplomat, Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu, was seized in the Royal Chateau with acute inflammation of the middle ear. While he writhed in pain, the four Majesties were startled to discover that they had not a doctor among them. What...