Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jazzed up this able Aux Ecoutes scoop to tell Germans that not $790 but $75,000 was given Mile de Fontages-a sum which no statesman in thrifty Europe would ever have to part with to a journalistic strumpet. At latest reports wounded Count de Chambrun, ever the gallant diplomat of the old school, was refusing to have the woman who winged him prosecuted. Said the Countess de Chambrun, former Princess Murat: "This journalist often saw my husband when she was in Rome writing news stories. She certainly was suffering from hallucinations when she suddenly appeared at the station...
Merle Oberon, as daughter of the diplomat sent to pacify Ireland, tries to keep her love with Brian Aherne safe from war though he is the leader of the rebellion. The tragedy is intensified in that the very strength of their love is the cause of his shooting. The radicals in the rebelling forces believe that Aherne signs a peace treaty because of love, and they mark him for a traitor's death. Through the whole movie runs the note of inevitable tragedy ominous events follow each other rapidly--, and the sympathy of the audience is high pitched...
...course the plot comes to the natural conclusion: Orloff is found out, and Nicole Picot, bitterly disillusioned, none-the-less stands by him to the end, ending up by marrying her true lover, English diplomat Anthony Wayne. This commonplace plot is somewhat remedied by the acting of Francis and Rains, and in case you're interested in women's dresses, there's always the fashion show put on at the Maison Picot...
...trim and whip-smart a little Japanese diplomat as the Empire could wish is Mr. Naotake Sato. In Tokyo his official rating was Ambassador to France last week, when suddenly he became Foreign Minister. Mr. Sato is emphatically a civilian, whereas the point of view of General-Premier Senjuro Hayashi's new "Gold Braid Cabinet" is extremely militarist (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.), but the new Foreign Minister quickly made an adroit move. His civilian predecessors at the Foreign Office have tried to attend to their job as though the Japanese Cabinet was like any other co-operative Cabinet...
...Bill" Macaulay first met the Bradys when he was a career diplomat in the British Civil Service. Born of a good Irish county family (no kin to British Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay), he transferred to the Irish Free State service when it was set up in 1924 was sent to Washington as secretary, later became counsellor at the Free State Legation. Dark-haired, affable, fond of bridge, Counsellor Macaulay was popular in the quiet set of Mrs. Lawrence Townsend in Washington, sometimes saw-Mrs. Brady at parties. In 1930 he was appointed Free State Consul General in Manhattan...