Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Elisabeth Reeve Morrow Morgan, 30, sister of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, eldest daughter of New Jersey's late Senator-Diplomat Dwight Morrow; of pneumonia following an appendectomy; in Pasadena, Calif...
...this delicate juncture Ambassador Troyanovsky as never before needed to play the discreet diplomat. There are some things an ambassador simply does not say. Ambassador Troyanovsky said nearly all of them in an address last week to the Society of Old Bolsheviks, Moscow's most select club. The S. O. B. had invited him to submit to questions and give them the low-down on President Roosevelt and the New Deal. "Exactly why do you think President Roosevelt recognized the Soviet Union?" asked an Old Bolshevik...
...Crew's note protesting Japan's petroleum laws. Acting Secretary of State Philips said the Japanese answer was "vague . . . incomplete . . . unsatisfactory." He hoped to get off fresh instructions to the U. S. Embassy in Tokyo soon. Meanwhile capable Joe Grew pushed on with the job which calls to a diplomat when he is not sure how far his chiefs want him to go. He did his best to check the ire of mounting tempers and to clear the way for intelligent, thoughtful negotiation. Out of the garnered wisdom of 28 years' diplomatic experience Ambassador Grew said, shortly after his arrival...
From Havana he was sent to Peking where his hard-riding military experience stood him in good stead, both at polo which he and other junior diplomats played in the precincts of the Temple of Heaven and at poker where his winnings had to be relied on to augment his small official stipend. The day came when the State Department discovered that Henry Fletcher was also a diplomat. As chargé d'affaires at Peking in 1909, amid the rumblings that preceded the overthrow of the Empire, he proved his mettle. From then on his path was onward...
...this long experience Henry Fletcher emerged with inscrutability, good humor, patience and a shrewd tongue. He could say sharp, cutting things when he wanted to. To a U. S.-hating Chilean who once remarked that he would not buy even a shoestring made in the U. S., Diplomat Fletcher replied: "I'm sorry the cable office isn't open today. I'd cable the President that the American shoe string industry is ruined." When Ambassador Dawes asserted that diplomacy "is easy on the head but hell on the feet," Mr. Fletcher quietly observed: "It depends on which...