Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Routine was the move of dry, pedantic, bespectacled George Messersmith from his post as Assistant Secretary to Ambassador to Cuba, a post of growing importance in Latin-American relations. A onetime high-school superintendent, Diplomat Messersmith successfully conceals 25 years of diplomatic experience (Vienna, Buenos Aires, Berlin, etc.) under the manner, bearing and speech of a high-school superintendent...
...Surprising was the naming of rich John Cudahy, lawyer, ex-rancher, present Minister to Eire, as Ambassador to Belgium. Having built up a fine stable in Eire (he gave up the Ambassadorship to Poland for the Dublin post), hard-riding, unambitious Diplomat Cudahy hated...
...years the U. S. has made much of its diplomatic inexperience. If the classic picture of a British diplomat is a well-read University man, trained to translate Rimbaud or snub the Estonian minister with equal aplomb, the classic figure of the U. S. diplomatist is a man who knows no foreign language, mixes up seating arrangements, and is just learning as he goes along. U. S. foreign service bags at the knees, pretends that its hearing is not very good, cannot dance, has only a vague idea of what is going on, is cheerfully disparaged by the populace...