Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franz von Papen, sly oldtime German diplomat, World War I spy, and jobholder under Hitler from 1933 down...
...Conolly, upped from vice admiral to admiral. Stocky, straight-shooting "Close-in" Conolly knew the shores of Tripoli and Italy from wartime command of amphibious forces. From 1946 administrative duty in Washington and current service at the Paris peace conference, he was fully rigged to sail as a seagoing diplomat...
...Said a diplomat just assigned to Washington from Eastern Europe, a man who knows Russia more intimately than almost any other person in the U.S.: U.S.Soviet relations are a very hard and very ugly problem. The pessimism in so many minds ("Has collaboration with Russia proved impossible?" and "When are we going to war with Russia?") is the result of disillusionment after false hopes...
Tutor & Technique. The late Arthur L. Clarke, first managing editor of the Daily News, wanted his son to be a diplomat. When Dick Clarke finished Hackley School, his father packed him off to Europe for a year, told his tutor to see that he did not read or speak a word of English. Clarke studied at Munich and Grenoble, spent three years at Harvard, got a "war degree" after World...
Tall, brown-haired Dr. Ivanissevich, who had been Peron's personal physician before becoming a diplomat, made it plain that this notion had been only a notion. "You should know," he said, "through the lips of a man who possesses the singular merit of never having lied, the truth regarding the Argentine Republic...