Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These were probably the strongest words ever penned by Ambassador Phillips in his 39 years as an impeccably correct, fashionable, circumspect career diplomat. The President kept the confidential report confidential. Ambassador Phillips next turned up in London, as chief political adviser to General Eisenhower...
...stormy petrel of the U.S. foreign service got a new job last week. To fill a part of the expanding diplomatic gap left by the Phillips resignation (see The Presidency), the State Department hurriedly appointed Career Diplomat Robert Daniel Murphy, 49, as political adviser to General Eisenhower. Bob Murphy, who had the game kind of job when General Eisenhower invaded North Africa, will have the rank of ambassador. He will deal primarily with problems of German occupation...
Along with Murphy went Career Diplomat Samuel Reber, his onetime assistant in Algiers. Sam Reber, 41, is an expert on French affairs, once held down the Department's French desk. With the rank of minister, he will handle, temporarily at least, diplomatic liaison with the new French Government...
Said a distinguished South American diplomat and longtime friend of the U.S.: "During the last two years the United States has accomplished three miracles. The first is the organization of the war economy. Second: from a peaceful nation, America has turned itself into the greatest military power. But the third and greatest miracle is that the U.S. has made Argentina almost popular in Latin America...
Evidence Enough. In addition to his other abilities, Novikov is a diplomat. Some of his best men, whom he could have used in executive capacities at home, he sent to Washington to maintain a polite but steady pressure for an evergrowing supply of Lend-Lease planes to Russia. The U.S. terminus at Great Falls, Mont., from which aircraft are flown to Russia by the Alaska-Siberia route, is now sending off equipment at the rate of many thousand planes a year. Guesses at current Soviet production are usually in the range of 30,000 planes a year. These figures...