Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frock-coated diplomat's social aplomb...
Discretion. These were the moves that launched a thousand rumors. Radiorators and columnists did not hesitate to announce as fact (each had it on unimpeachable authority) a dozen conflicting guesses. Most of them focused on the lean and elegant figure of Sumner Welles. A career diplomat, 47, educated at Groton, Harvard, and the embassies at Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Havana, Sumner Welles is a casting director's dream of a diplomat, except for his thinning hair. His diplomatic experience has ranged from mediating in the Dominican Republic at 30 to seeing him self hanged in effigy in Cuba...
Alexander Cincar-Markovitch, Yugoslavia's Foreign Minister, was host. Bald, imperturbable, M. Cincar-Markovitch is a professional diplomat formerly stationed at Berlin and Rome. He strives for "faithful collaboration with Germany" and for "greater friendship" with Italy, at the same time keeping his wires open to Paris and London. Of all the Balkans, his is the country most nearly neutral...
Latest answer to these riddles was offered this week in a shrewd and seductive biography by erudite, witty, sparrowish Salvador de Madariaga, Spain's famed philosopher-journalist-diplomat. He declares that Cristóbal Colón was a Genoa-born, converted Spanish Jew; that his family fled Catalonia during the Jewish pogroms around...
Biggest surprise was the appointment of 43-year-old Jimmy Cromwell, amateur economist, amateur boxer, amateur politician, husband of wealthy ($53,000,000) Doris Duke, to the comfortable, socially pleasant, politically important post of Minister to Canada. Last week New Jersey's potent Frank Hague declared that Diplomat Cromwell would make an "ideal" New Jersey Senatorial candidate. Unkind Washington wags commented: "Jimmy Cromwell's appointment indicates that our relations with Canada are in the best possible condition...