Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yield to Japan's demand for parity? "We never have," replied Mr. Davis. Then with a diplomat's sense of the danger of saying "No," he hastily added: "But I'd rather you did not ask that." Jarless. The third member of the U. S. delegation, being a professional diplomat, said not a word as he boarded the Aquitania. He was the least important member of the delegation, because Mr. Davis was its diplomatic head, Admiral Standley its naval head and he merely a third wheel. His appointment to the delegation is officially to last for only...
...more tact and more charm which was to stand him in good stead when his diplomatic career began again. Nowadays Mrs. Phillips is rated rather snobbish, but obstinate would be a better word for it. She refuses to wear glasses although she is so shortsighted that she cannot recognize her best friends across a room. As his hostess in Washington when Woodrow Wilson called him back to the State Department just before the War, as his hostess at The Hague when he was appointed Minister to The Netherlands (1920), in Brussels when he became Ambassador to Belgium...
...prevent Canada from being blamed in any case for starting a new World War. The proposal to add oil to the Sanctions brew was not made by "The White Knight of Geneva," handsome young British League of Nations Minister Captain Anthony Eden, nor by his Government. With the seasoned diplomat's flair for keeping his own fingers out of the broth, Captain Eden went around to the League's International Labor Office and exerted his charm on that semi-Socialist and anti-Fascist quarter. Soon he had steamed up Chairman Dr. Walter Alexander Riddell of the Governing Body...
...named, instructed and gave his parting blessing to the U. S. delegation to the Naval Limitation Conference which meets in London Dec. 6: 1) Admiral William H. Standley, Chief of Naval Operations, 2) roving Ambassador Norman H. Davis, professional conference goer, 3) Undersecretary of State William Phillips, ranking career diplomat of the State Department. Their job: to do what Washington regards as virtually impossible, namely, to persuade other nations not to increase their fleets...
Bruce C. Hopper '24, assistant professor of Government, also speaking at the meeting, declared that we must discard our "out worn policy of impartiality" for one of "whole-hearted cooperation with other peaceful nations and open partiality against the warring aggressor." By stationing a permanent diplomat at Geneva and keeping in close touch with London and Paris, Professor Hopper claimed that the United States could more consistently work with the League of Nations and not play "the lone wolf as we did in the Hoover Moratorium...