Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marriage would be performed, as had been predicted, in Rome by Papal Secretary of State Pacelli, who visited at "Inisfada" last autumn (TIME, Oct. 19 et seq.), performed it soon would be in a manner befitting the mature companionship of a good and gracious lady and a courtly diplomat...
...King George VI, handsomely bedight as Admiral of the Fleet, was standing in his splendid Throne Room at Buckingham Palace, receiving the diplomatic corps for the first time since His Majesty's accession. In strict order of precedence, each diplomat was presented by Lieut. General Sir Sidney Clive, a vigorous Court functionary with a clarion voice. In 1919 he was Military Governor at Cologne, cordially hated by its Germans, as were all the Allied "conquerors." Last week German Ambassador von Ribbentrop, instead of bowing to King George when presented by Sir Sidney, clicked his heels smartly together, gave...
With a satisfied glint behind his thick- lensed spectacles, stoop-shouldered Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras left Geneva last week where he had been representing his country at the League Council's 96th session (TIME, Feb. 1). That suave diplomat, onetime obstetrician, had now delivered for Turkey a League settlement of the Turkish-French dispute over the sanjak (district) of Alexandretta which Dictator Mustafa Kamal Ataturk had demanded that France hand to him from her Syrian mandate (TIME...
...famous Stavisky "bucket shop" scandal, which nearly caused a French revolution several years ago. Only one major departure from historical truth can be noted--instead of ending up in the log show of New York's French Casino, as did Stavisky's wife Sacha, Kay Francis marries an English diplomat, thus suppling the customary happy ending...
...same day he is forced to flee to Switzerland where on of his ex-partners, a police official who fears that he might tell too much, has him murdered and then makes it appear a suicide. This leaves Niki free to marry Antony Wayne, the diplomat, who has been lurking in the offing...