Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This unusual parting gift to the U. S. capitalist-diplomat from the Soviet Union's Communist rulers was the last of a series of cordial farewells terminating Mr. Davies' 18 months' ambassadorship in Moscow. Most unusual feature of the farewells was a two-hour talk (subjects unrevealed) with Dictator Stalin himself. Two days before their departure, Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinoff gave a farewell dinner to Mr. & Mrs. Davies and the Embassy staff. Tipping a glass of champagne in a toast to President Roosevelt. Commissar Litvinoff declared there was a "latent mutual sympathy'' between...
...foreign diplomat, U. S. or otherwise, has ever received kindnesses from Soviet Russia equal to that accorded Mr. Davies, whose outright position as a U. S. money man left room for no ambiguity or misunderstanding between him and his official hosts. Few have shown in return the same interest in the Soviet Union. First arriving in Moscow with a large entourage and a railroad car of frozen delicacies, Ambassador Davies immediately won the Soviet Union's friendship by his elaborate entertainments for Soviet officials, by two long trips and many minor ones through the interior. Once he dined...
...Just what is going to happen as a result of the present hostilities is hard to say," stated the diplomat, veteran of 36 years, experience in the Orient. "There is no doubt that the war has created a great national feeling in China, and in Japan it is not wholly backed by the mass of the people by any means," he added...
...fact is that a Diplomat who holes his ball...
...EDUCATION OF A DIPLOMAT-Hugh Wilson-Longmans, Green ($2.50). Pleasantly written, diplomatically reticent reminiscences of the present U. S. Ambassador to Germany, covering the period from 1911 to the entry of the U. S. into the War, embassy experiences in Lisbon, Guatemala, Buenos Aires, Berlin...