Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Frederick Bertram Robin son, 58, ex-President of New York's City College; in Manhattan. Energetic organizer, dabbler in the arts, he was known as a campus diplomat before he ran afoul of liberal and radical students in the ideological '305, after that had a stormy time, was the subject of a mock trial, picketing, ouster movements, before he resigned...
...always been easy to follow Papen. The sartorially perfect diplomat, who (in everything but integrity) much resembles a Prussian Anthony Eden, has been seen largely in tantalizing glimpses, shooting precipitately through the trap doors of Europe's high-political underworld. Last week Hungarian Newshawk Tibor Koeves brought these glimpses together to produce the first full-length biography of Papen in English. His book helped explain the connection between the shadowy circles in which Papen moves and the shadowy circles under his eyes. It also explained in part the chemistry of that strange political amalgam: Junker aristocrats with Nazi riffraff...
When Chancellor Heinrich Bruening first used these almost dictatorial powers, Soldier-Diplomat von Papen "looked on fascinated." The former bombster dreamed of becoming chancellor and restoring the Junkers to power...
Secretary Eden, a model diplomat, said nothing with great graciousness. More forthright, after the meeting, was Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, a stampeding emancipatrix if not yet a diplomat. She snorted: "You can't convince a diplomat. We women made an unanswerable case. A woman is far more skillful than a man at wangling another man around, and that is what you want in a diplomat...
Died. Alanson Bigelow Houghton, 77, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Germany (1922-25), Ambassador to Britain (1925-29); in South Darmouth, Mass. Ex-president of the Corning Glass Works, he was known as "the businessman diplomat," was influential in "selling" the Dawes plan to post-World War I Germany...