Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of these shifts ranked in importance with the appointment last week of cool, tough career Diplomat Jefferson Caffery, 57, ex-Ambassador to Brazil, as U.S. envoy to Paris, with the rank of ambassador. Forthwith the French gaily opened up their big, chateau-shaped Embassy in Washington, closed since the 1942 departure of Vichyman Gaston Henri-Haye. Paris should be a hot diplomatic spot, which will be no novelty to Careerist Caffery, who has served U.S. interests abroad through six administrations. A Louisianian who studied to be a lawyer, Caffery went to work for the State Department when...
...State Department fledgling, he was entrusted with such tricky diplomatic odd jobs as: 1) escorting the late King Albert of Belgium and the Prince of Wales about the U.S., 2) acting as Woodrow Wilson's protocol adviser at Versailles. In more recent years, he is credited with the tricky job of persuading Brazil to give the U.S. World War II air bases. Natty Diplomat Caffery keeps his figure trim by swimming, climbing mountains, and forgoing lunch. Shy, nervous and addicted to bad puns, he is highly regarded by the Department as a painstaking foreign serviceman who plugs away...
...Caffery talents offered no clue to Washington's future course toward De Gaulle. If the U.S. drifts into full recognition of the Paris Government, Diplomat Caffery is an expert at the old game of diplomatic drifting. But he is also known as a hardheaded trouble shooter...
...work out U.S. proposals for unkinking the economy of liberated countries, met the committee three times in three days. He had his first full-dress session with the Chiefs of Staff since his return from the Pacific. He summoned Robert D. Murphy, soon to be the top U.S. diplomat in Germany. He had a chat with British Ambassador Lord Halifax (and made a bet with him-amount undisclosed-on the war's end-date undisclosed). He also did some quick shoring-up of his political defenses, calling in the Governor of Texas and ordering Jimmy Byrnes to pull...
...removed from his everyday peeves. His mind's eye filled with tall clipper ships crowding on sail on the China run, with silks and sandalwood and opium, gongs and the firebreath of dragons. In New York and Boston libraries he delved long in old tomes: Lawrence Kearny, Sailor Diplomat; The Clipper Ship Era; The Opium Trade; The Opium Clipper. Could Peg be softening up, seeking escape from the hateful present? Last week, in one of his last columns for Scripps-Howard, came the answer...