Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Often called the greatest living diplomat is M. Alexis Léger, Secretary-General of the French Foreign Office. Wedded firmly to Paris, he never stirs abroad if he can help it, and overseas territories are to him outlandish pawns, to be played coldly in diplomacy's great game. Last week M. Alexis Léger, much to his distaste, was obliged to quit his beloved Paris for a few days in order to coach Premier Camille Chautemps and Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos at London in the opening hands of a game for breathtakingly high stakes. Green...
Most Rev. Giuseppe Pizzardo, 61, scholar and diplomat, who is secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, head of the Church's bureau of Catholic Action. Once detested by Italy's Fascists because he fought the Pope's battle with them over the matter of educating Italian youth, Monsignor Piz-zardo, like the Pope, is today disposed to collaborate with Fascism. As much as any prelate in the Vatican, he has the Holy Father's ear in business and financial affairs. Last May he was the Pope's legate to the coronation...
Believing that Marriner had refused him a visa to return to the U. S., the Armenian emptied a revolver into the diplomat as he left his automobile in front of the U. S. Consulate five weeks ago. Actually, Marriner had granted the visa but the letter informing Karayan had not been delivered because of a change of address. Condemned to death after a court had judged him sane, Karayan was refused a last minute reprieve...
Angel (Paramount) concerns Lady Maria's (Marlene Dietrich) rather pathetic effort to cast off her loyalty to her diplomat husband, Sir Frederick (Herbert Marshall). Angel is not a slut but a wife whose fidelity has been overstrained by Sir Frederick's immersion in diplomacy. And he, for all his fine deliberate charm, is the type of fellow who. when his wife tells him that she has been dreaming, immediately asks...
...full-voiced abandonment of traditional U. S. isolationism at Chicago three weeks ago was the gentle, tutorial lisp of Cordell Hull, believe also that Pupil Roosevelt spoke more strongly than his adviser intended. Carefully avoiding expressions like "quarantine" and "concerted effort," whose use by the President jolted many a diplomat, Oldster Hull gave his measured definition of a changing U. S. foreign policy...