Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was no mean triumph for the years of patient diplomacy practiced by China's greatest diplomat, Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo. Since Japan and China are again at dangerous loggerheads, the winning of a Council seat at Geneva now gives China a front-row vantage post from which to shriek to the World for help should Japan again strike...
...does not like a subject- arithmetic is one-she can, like other little girls, be obstinately slow." ¶During the week King Edward kept in closest touch with the ugly situation developing as Soviet Russia threatened to intervene in the Spanish Civil War and stormy scenes among the diplomats concerned lasted for hours at a stretch in the British Foreign Office (see p. 22). To Buckingham Palace was frequently summoned the brilliant directing diplomat who is not always permitted to prevail at once in shaping the British Cabinet's foreign policy but usually manages to prevail sooner or later...
...Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, whose policy today is based upon a system of concordats- agreements as between sovereign powers- which testify everywhere to the principle of Catholic freedom of action, even though in countries like Germany such freedom is not a fact. As a Catholic Diplomat Eugenio Pacelli rose swiftly. Born into an old Roman family which had furnished the Church many a functionary, this solemn, devout young man became a priest at 23, was summoned to the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs at 25. Monsignor Pietro Gasparri, who later became Cardinal and Secretary of State, took...
...typically detached, impersonal book of a professional diplomat, weighed down with heavily documented defenses of his policy, Memoirs of Count Bernstorff is of most interest to U. S. readers in its account of the months before relations be tween the U. S. and Germany were broken. Up to that time Bernstorff's career was unexciting. Born of an old diplomatic family in 1862, Bernstorff had been an in different student, apparently without goading ambitions, when a feud between his family and the Bismarcks seemingly put an end to any diplomatic aspirations he might have held. Bernstorff's older...
...received a most delightful letter and the writer was truly a diplomat. The article stated that France would not be disposed to change her history books...