Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rumors that Finland was about to ask for peace with Russia suddenly recurred in Stockholm. The Swedish press reported that Dr. Juho Kusti Paasikivi, elderly banker and diplomat who took part in the Russo-Finnish peace negotiations of 1940, had been asked to prepare for another trip to Moscow...
...California's earnest young Representative Will Rogers Jr., junketing on a lecture tour, gave currency to a proposal often discussed among experts on the Far East. Said Will Rogers: perhaps the Mikado would be an ideal U.S. puppet in Japan. The idea had been proposed by a British diplomat, he said. Congressman Rogers carefully did not endorse or condemn the plan; he merely offered it for his listeners' "consideration...
More interested than any other power was the Soviet Union. "We do not mind," said a Soviet diplomat to a Chinese diplomat a decade ago, "if you Chinese develop Turkestan. But if you permit Turkestan to become a second Manchuria, we must act to protect ourselves." The Soviet Union suspected Japanese designs on Soviet Central Asia itself. Also, in Russia's mind there lingered the ancient Czarist fear of British influence working out from India. To the Russians, it seemed that the British Consulate at Kashgar might be almost as dangerous as the reported Japanese advisers of Ma Chung...
Last week, armed with the title of Cultural Attaché of the Cuban Embassy, solid, swarthy Ernesto Lecuona was rushing around Manhattan doing a number of things no diplomat had ever done before. He had just signed one of the biggest song-publishing contracts ever negotiated on Broadway. He had agreed to collaborate with U.S. Songwriter Vincent Youmans (Tea for Two) on 15 numbers for a new musical show. He was combing Hollywood agents out of his vaselined hair. He had gathered together an orchestra of some 60 pieces and turned Carnegie Hall into a cave of Caribbean melody...
...beauties. Don Felipe first courted her in the '20s, but she married two wealthy Americans first. Finally, three weeks after her second divorce, Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden became Senora de Espil, who in turn became one of the world's ten best-dressed women, and an able diplomat herself...