Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jour-L'Echo de Paris, lost, however, one of Echo's biggest assets: Anglophile André Géraud, better known as Pertinax, one of the best connected of the many well-connected political writers in France. His political dispatches which sparkle like champagne at a diplomat's table have long appeared in the London Telegraph and the New York Times. From now on he will devote full time to the editorship of a weekly, L'Europe Nouvelle, continue his spasmodic pieces for the Times and Telegraph...
...House commuted to Europe as Wilson's private emissary to statesmen and kings, trying first to prevent the World War, then to bring peace. In 1916 he was consulting strategist of the he-kept-us-out-of-war campaign in which Wilson was reelected, again a diplomat during the War and early League of Nations days, was estranged from Wilson in the latter days of the Administration. More influential than any brain truster of Franklin Roosevelt, Colonel House never held an elective office...
...Roosevelt entered the White House, Germans have been extremely watchful of his attitude toward Adolf Hitler's Government, have rated the President discreetly but definitely anti-Nazi. Adolf Hitler was never more vehemently sincere than when he welcomed to Berlin last week the new U. S. Ambassador, Career Diplomat Hugh R. Wilson, with what the Führer called "vivid satisfaction...
...prisoners (TIME, March 7), no matter what happened in the courtroom. Pravda is seldom wrong in such a case. Thus the U. S. Ambassador could look across at the witness box to the right of the judges' table and figure that certain death hung over the distinguished Russian diplomat who welcomed him on his arrival (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937), and presented him to Soviet President Mihail Kalinin in the Kremlin, Nikolai Krestinsky, who in Washington terms would be the right-hand man of Secretary Hull. Death also hung over former Foreign Trade Commissar Rozengolts who had dined with Ambassador...
...Britannic Majesty's consulate in Leningrad. Last week, the Russians, who also do not like to be dictated to, again asked for the closing of the British consulate in Leningrad. "Under protest" Britain acceded, thereby shutting off the only source of British visas for all except diplomats, who can get them from the British Embassy in Moscow. This did not bother the Soviet Government which is quite ready to make a diplomat out of any citizen it cares to send abroad...