Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cruiser Saiyen as navigating officer and a few days later navigated her, despite the Imperial spyglasses, onto a mine. She sank, and most of the officers and crew with her. Nomura says of his survival: "Ship she go down; me I come up." The Navy made Navigator Nomura a diplomat. He served in Vienna and Berlin for a time, and during World War I was stationed in Washington as Naval Attache. There he made the acquaintance of Under Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt and many a naval comer; it is this period which gave him his reputation...
Most uneasy diplomat in the Western Hemisphere last week was Germany's Ambassador to Argentina, Baron Edmund von Thermann. Before his eyes one of the Nazis' neatest, costliest propaganda machines was being turned into junk. What was worse, it seemed likely that he would shortly be back in Berlin where he would have to explain what went wrong...
...that Franklin would become a politician. "I hoped, she said, "that he would grow up to be a fine, upright man, respected in his home and in his own community - I hoped that he would grow up to be like his father." She once wanted him to become a diplomat, but she followed his rise in politics with devoted interest. When Franklin was elected President of the United States, she said simply: "I know he'll do his best...
While Japanese soldiers in French Indo-China made ugly faces across the border at Thailand, the U.S. decided that Bangkok was no place for a noncareer diplomat, hastily picked one of the ablest (and homeliest) career men in its Far Eastern diplomatic service to replace the Alabama politico who has been U.S. Minister there since...
...Yoshizawa was calculated to be more than a match for Amateur Diplomat van Mook. Muttered Admiral Nobumasa Suetsugu, longtime policymaker for the Japanese Navy, as the negotiations opened: "We have a right to ask the East Indies to cooperate with us ... and to ask them for the materials needed for our common prosperity and existence. . . . There is no cause for hesitation. It all depends on Japan's own determination." Minister van Mook was also determined...