Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was what Saburo Kurusu was hearing in Washington last week. The Japanese envoy saw Secretary Hull and then remained in seclusion, less like a diplomat awaiting new orders than like a casualty in the war of nerves. The U.S. suggestion was enough to give any diplomat an attack of nerves: long before Hitler is prepared to take on North America, he must have Japan completely subservient to his will...
Into the White House last week marched youngish Thor Thors, Iceland diplomat. Franklin Roosevelt accepted his credentials as first Minister to the U.S. from Iceland, acknowledged an agreement to underwrite all British trade obligations to Iceland under a special Lend-Lease agreement, at an estimated cost to the U.S. of about $20,000,000 annually. The U.S. will pay dollars to Iceland for all the fish and fish oil shipped from Iceland to Britain, will treat the little democracy as a Good Neighbor...
...Roosevelt intended to make an off-the-record speech at the National Press Club Saturday night, then leave for Warm Springs. Sunday he was still in the White House. Events, in the bulky shape of John L. Lewis (see p. 20), history, in the acrobatic shape of a Japanese diplomat (see col. 2), winter, in the guise of a head cold, came together to make it a week of postponement...
...glib, soft-spoken naval diplomat. He has a salty tongue and a predilection for blunt truths. In periodic get-togethers with Lieut. General Douglas MacArthur,* who commands the U.S. and native troops in the Philippines, and with Dutch and British officers, he usually says little. He prefers action. Tommy Hart will be ready to shoot...
...letter was in answer to another that began: "Dear Franklin." Shrewd, spry old Diplomat Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy during World War I when Franklin Roosevelt was his assistant, had just resigned as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. He had held that pesky post for eight long years. Of his own accord, he had decided to give it up, retire to his native North Carolina...