Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next the young man encounters an orating windbag, Mr. Speakeasy, M.P., whose booming platitudes about freedom from want fail to interest the pensive soldier. He is also unmoved by the frenzied screechings of Mr. Escapegoat, the diplomat, and the Rev. Hateman, the cleric, who unite in a Vansittart diatribe about German savagery and sing a duet: "The Germans are not the Herrenvolk. We are the Herrenvolk...
William Christian Bullitt, elegant ex-Ambassador to France, now candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, got into trouble with the city's tax receiver about the city's tax on wages. The dapper diplomat was charged with not filing his returns for 1940, '41 and '42 until last mont, when he reported his three years' wages as 33,535.14 and paid a tax of $108.94. The tax man had wanted to hear more about the ambassadorial expenses for which Bullitt had claimed deductions, but had been reminded that all the embassy records were destroyed when...
...meet bitter opposition from those who think democratic aspirations are important. For Breckin ridge Long, whose swank parties were attended by the fanciest members of Ital ian society, has won no distinction by his opposition to Fascism. Other candidates for Sumner Welles's vacated job are Career-Diplomat George S. Messersmith, onetime Minister to Austria...
...remind Americans that the poet with one of the most notable double lives since Christopher Marlowe is now consultant for French poetry at the Library of Congress. For St. John Perse is the pseudonym of Marie Rene Auguste Alexis Saint-Leger Leger, for years France's celebrated diplomat and wily Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs...
...years (1924-40) Léger presided behind the scenes of France's Foreign Office. He was known as "the Vansittart of the Quai d'Orsay," "Europe's greatest living diplomat." Said one awed foreign observer: "Präsidenten gehen, Aussenminister gehen, aber Alexis Leger bleibt immer da" ("Presidents go, foreign ministers go, but Alexis Leger always remains...