Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moslem League, is lax in his religious observances. ("Jinnah does not have a beard; Jinnah does not go to the Mosque; Jinnah drinks whiskey!") With his perfect English, which he speaks better than his native Gujerati, his slick grey hair and graceful, precise gestures, he might be a European diplomat of the old school. How such a man at a fateful moment in history came to be the spokesman for millions of Moslem peasants, small shopkeepers and soldiers, is a story of love of country and lust for power, a story that twists and turns like a bullock track...
...Passed, subject to Senate approval, a bill legalizing the immigration of 1) teenage Giovanni (Johnny) Camera and Anthony di Ina, troopship stowaways, 2) 31-year-old Masuyo Sudo Cromely, Japanese wife of a U.S. newsman, 3) 37-year-old Virginia Casardi, U.S.-born spouse of an Italian diplomat. Sent back to the Immigration and Naturalization Committee for further study was a similar "request of asylum" bill for three Russian stowaways, all adults...
Pedro Leao Velloso was the watchful Brazilian. A lawyer and seasoned diplomat, Dr. Velloso sat silently and glistened; his dark green glasses, the scarflike handkerchief that poured from his breast pocket, the glistening mahogany-hued dome of his bald pate all shone...
Mahmoud Hassan Pasha was the proud Moslem. Egypt's jurist-diplomat wore gaudy ties, played with his microphone, ignored his advisers, spoke plainly and at length, thumped the table to emphasize points, reminded his listeners again & again that he had served in his country's high courts...
Francisco Castillo Najera was the impulsive Latin American. Mexico's Foreign Minister, a surgeon, poet and guitar player as well as diplomat, spoke and gestured volubly. In his heavily accented French, he dropped Gallic syllables like Mexican hot tamales. When he rendered Gromyko's cumbersome title, Représentant de I'Union des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques, it shortened to le représ . . . tant de Union . . . tique. But at tense moments the versatile Mexican was a model of taciturn tact...