Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomat with a lawyer's incisive mind, Jessup was picked as the ideal man to thread a way through the evasions and admissions of the State Department's shaky 1,054-page white paper on China, turned out a report that put the best face on the U.S.'s weak and vacillating policy in Asia. Then he turned to an even tougher task. As head of a three-man committee, he set to auditing the entire U.S. Far Eastern policy...
...results of that tour the State Department was expected to base some of its most critical decisions of 1950. If Diplomat Jessup, who had sometimes questioned State's wait-until-the-dust-settles policy, could provide the basis for a revitalized U.S. policy in Asia, his seat in the little paneled office in the State Department would be even harder to fill...
Divorced. By Boyce ("Peggy") Schulze Hohenlohe, 28, daughter of Heiress (copper) Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, stepdaughter of Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr.: Alexander Hohenlohe, 31, prince and war refugee, who fled Poland with the Biddles in 1939, attempted suicide last September after his separation from Peggy; after ten years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
Divorced. Arnold Nelson Welles, 31, socialite son of Author-Diplomat Sumner Welles; by Adele Harman Welles, 30; after seven years of marriage, two sons; in Reno...
...Born in Amsterdam, he grew up in London and Hamburg, where his father, a cigarmaker, had set up shop. Beginning work at 14, as a clerk, he moved on to trade-union journalism, eventually headed the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation. A good-natured, soft-spoken labor diplomat as well as a staunch anti-Communist and a crack administrator, Oldenbroek seemed to many outsiders to be the ideal man for the job. "We are going to be efficient, in the American sense," he said last week. "That means when you want something, you go all out, and no rest...