Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indicate that college students must resign themselves to an unhealthy fatalism. There is much practical work to be done for the cause of peace. Neither do they prove that an aroused public opinion does not have its value. It is true, nevertheless, that one intelligent, hard-working, and sincere diplomat is at present of more value than a thousand signers of fragile pledges...
While many a young career diplomat bites his nails and pines for a squib about himself which may catch the eye of President Roosevelt or Secretary Hull, grandmotherly Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen continues to beat all State Department records for sustained publicity in her minor post in Denmark. Peering inquisitively into Mrs. Roosevelt's shrimp cocktail, Mrs. Owen lately achieved a pose of definite news-picture appeal (see cut). Last week "Big Ruth," as her three grandchildren call her, returned to her post, and a Danish despatch revealed how thoroughly Madam Minister has the local correspondents in hand...
...Today is 'Ruth Bryan Owen Day' in Copenhagen as the Danish metropolis awaits the return of the most popular diplomat ever sent here. . . . A grand reception has been arranged. . . . The newspapers publish columns about...
...speech delivered several years ago before the journalists at Geneva, the German Foreign Minister said that every diplomat who comes to international conferences plays two roles. In one role he is the representative of national interests, and it is his duty to safeguard and forward those interests as far as possible. His attention to those demands is continually compelled by the press and political administration in his own country. "National honor" and "American interests" are some of the vague phrases which are hurled at him if he appears to pay too much attention to the intelligent demands of other countries...
Today the palace where the Constitutions were declared is a moldering, overgrown ruin on private land near Salisbury. Dr. Tancred Borenius of London's University College, eminent Finnish-born scholar, diplomat and dendrologist, has been cutting away the ash trees, clearing out wagonloads of earth. Laid bare were parts of the great hall, two enormous kitchens, some state apartments, eating and drinking vessels from which irascible King Henry and his court feasted...