Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tokyo was the unhappy climax of Ambassador Grew's career. It was the most difficult post a U.S. Ambassador could be given, and tall, grey, patrician Joseph Clark Grew had earned it by becoming the No. 1 U.S. career diplomat...
Said Herbert Hoover fortnight ago: "The American people must begin to think of the problems of peace. And it must think in a far larger frame than ever before." In a thoughtful, 295-page book, The Problems of Lasting Peace (Doubleday Doran; $2), Hoover and veteran Diplomat Hugh Gibson provide a sense-making frame to help clarify post-war thinking...
Died. John Work Garrett, 70, retired career diplomat, U.S. Ambassador to Italy from 1929 to 1933; in Baltimore. Onetime Minister to Venezuela (1910-11), Argentina (1911-14), The Netherlands and Luxembourg (1917-19), he served as secretary general of the Washington arms limitation conference...
Shepherded by a Coast Guard tug and three tootling patrol boats, the Swedish-American liner Drottningholm nosed into New York Harbor. She had come through the most dangerous waters in the world, with 40 searchlights playing on Swedish flags painted on her hull and on the word "DIPLOMAT" in letters 13 feet high. Aboard were 114 Americans repatriated from Norway and Sweden. In other ships, similarly lighted and on similar missions, there was under way last week the greatest exchange of diplomats and belligerent nationals in history...
There is no single scene to equal that of the death of the Dutch diplomat in "Foreign Correspondent," but there are many episodes with genuine genius behind them. Characterization is the forte of this film; no other Hitchcock picture has had such well-drawn dramatis personae. Of course, the hero and heroine are fairly one-dimensional; Robert Cummings is allowed to swagger a bit as Barry Keane, but Priscilla Lane, although skillfully directed to cover up her deficiencies, is bad. The emphasis of the picture rests on the fifth columnists; a trio of them, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, and especially...