Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan had a new Foreign Minister last week in the person of grinning, toothy Hachiro Arita. A career diplomat with a long record of service in Brussels, Vienna, Washington and Peiping, he was always considered a liberal, anxious to see the army curbed until he was sent to China in February. Amiable Ambassador Arita arrived at Nanking on a gunboat with decks cleared for action, has been hand-in-glove with the militarists ever since. Returning from paying his respects to his Emperor last week, the new Foreign Minister announced with a wave of his gleaming silk...
Thundering in from Berlin to London went airplane loads of the Realmleader's most experienced diplomats and most trusted advisers on foreign affairs. Captains of these two distinct groups are the Brothers-in-Law Dr. Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff & Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop. The former is a career diplomat of masterly attainments. The latter is a one-time German champagne salesman and husband of a German champagne heiress...
...Diplomat von Ribbentrop sat down, he realized that the Council must almost certainly vote to condemn Germany, hastily popped up again to plead that it would be "unfair" to Germany to vote at once. Seemingly the brothers-in-law hoped that even a brief delay would bring intervention favorable to Germany from Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. This was still possible, but French Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin, tall, big-boned and fair, again showed that he knows remarkably well how to handle Britons. The usual sort of Frenchman would almost certainly have demanded an immediate vote, and in so doing...
...Formally Refuse." To London simultaneously rushed a pair of the Wilhelmstrasse's ablest practitioners of diplomacy, smartsters who have helped Adolf Hitler draft his more considered speeches. These were Herr Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff and Dr. Friedrich Gaus, whom any professional diplomat would recognize as aces in their line. They said that Dr. Gaus had made the discovery, after analyzing all treaties concerned, that legally the League cannot punish Germany's present treaty violations by sanctions. This "discovery" the Poles, though they have a ten-year non-aggression pact with Hitler, greeted by sarcastically remarking in London, "Germany...
...logical, cerebral Latins and to Britons whom he humbly delights to consider superior persons. Broadcasts by Orator Hitler on foreign policy are so comparatively smooth, so well-turned and of such reasonable length as to amaze many Germans and lead to rumors that some be-monocled old-school diplomat of the Wilhelmstrasse must write them. But Adolf Hitler confronted face to face by a foreigner is also different from Adolf Hitler overpowering a dazzled German. To Berlin last week, hastily summoned from Paris, hurried Paris-Midi's correspondent de luxe, M. Bertrand de Jouvenel, son of the late, great...