Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, still feeling jounced from his 13 days of flying, Bishop Ryan rested at Palm Beach. In a message addressed to "Franklin D. Roosevelt, Amateur Fisherman" and signed "Bishop James Ryan, Amateur Diplomat," he informed the President of his return. In Washington, Father Sheehy delivered to Secretary of State Hull a confidential report on the two churchmen's able job of amateur diplomacy. Its gist: "The foundation has been laid for a 'Catholic front' to protect democracy in this hemisphere...
Unlike his far shrewder halfbrother, the late Sir Austen Chamberlain, a skilled diplomat and linguist, Mr. Chamberlain is singularly unequipped for his "personal" chats with the leaders of other nations. During his November visit to Paris he disappointed French radio listeners by saying "I can speak no French." Last week he showed that he had at least learned something. Saying farewell to M. Daladier he beamed: "Merci, thank you, Merci, monsieur, beaucoup, beaucoup, beaucoup...
Meanwhile, Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck made an official call on Führer Hitler at his Bavarian retreat. Timidly Diplomat Beck, who has his hands full trying to balance Poland on a tightrope between Nazi and French democratic influence, inquired into Germany's intentions toward his country...
Nicole was an egoistic, adventurous, impressionable, plain-looking, book-loving French girl. Her motto, borrowed from a religious martyr, was Resist. "Resisting" many a Frenchman, Nicole at 18 went to Dublin to teach French in a language school. When she met Michael Brandon, handsome journalist, and budding diplomat, her resistance collapsed-against the universal warning of her friends, who called him arrogant, priggish, sadistic and a lot besides...
Understanding Senator Pittman's words were far too crude for diplomacy. Even from a chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee (who is not expected to be a diplomat) they came perilously close to being a deliberate insult. And there was even a suspicion that they might have been inspired by the White House. In effect, Mr. Ickes having boxed Adolf Hitler's ear, and Mr. Welles having slapped his nose, Mr. Pittman took a roundhouse swing...