Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hours before the debate began, the British Government had assisted Franco's longtime representative in London, the Duke of Berwick & Alba, in taking over the palatial Spanish Embassy in Belgrave Square. Britain meanwhile decided to send as her Ambassador to Franco Spain a routine diplomat, 50-year-old Sir Maurice Drummond Peterson, until last week Britain's Ambassador to Iraq and a man who has seen previous service in Madrid as counselor of the British Embassy. Franco promptly accepted...
...aggression pact with Soviet Russia, Colonel Beck played host to Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano. It was reported that Colonel Beck lent an interested ear to Count Ciano's talk about Italy's colonial "aspirations" (at the expense of France) in the Mediterranean. Some diplomatic correspondents even reported that Italy was ready to cut Poland in for some of France's colonies, probably Madagascar, where anti-Semitic Poland might send some of her 3,200,000 Jews, which she wants no more than Germany wants hers. That shrewd Colonel Beck was not putting all his diplomatic...
Only in the peculiar internal political structure of Poland is it possible today for such a coldblooded, unscrupulous, calculating diplomat as Colonel Beck to get away with his fast & loose international dealings. Even in modern dictatorships a Führer or a Duce must sell his people on accepting his judgments on foreign relations. In a democracy a Foreign Minister is at the political mercy of public opinion. But in Poland Colonel Beck is under neither handicap and the reason is that Poland is neither a dictatorship nor a democracy...
...axis powers, looked not unfavorably upon riots against the other power in the hope that they might persuade Britain and France that Poland is still worth lending money to. While few of Europe's statesmen like Colonel Beck and absolutely none trust him, no seasoned diplomat of Europe's hard-boiled chancelleries can fail to admire him. In his own way, he does his job superbly well...
Pacelli's elevation to the papal throne will probably mean little or no change in the political policies of the Holy See. For in his capacity as chief papal diplomat, he had set the tenor of Church diplomacy for the last years of the life of Pope Pius XI. His election was fought by the Nazi government, but now that its influence has proved insufficient, the German government may resort to more stringent tactics in dealing with the Catholic Church. However, Pacelli had recognized the Franco regime over a year ago and thus has insured the Church's position...