Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With showers of blue sparks the great European expresses slid into Geneva's railway station last week, and out of the windows came the bags & brief cases of many a diplomat. Both the Council and the General Assembly of the League of Nations were reopening...
...ranked high in personality a girl should be: interesting in conversation, competent, a person of wide interests, intelligent, athletic, a good sport, sincere, adaptable. He also found eight personality types: the entertaining, the brilliant, the culture-talented, the just, the pretty, the good fellow, the good neighbor, the diplomat...
...clock every good diplomat should be at the tea table. At 5 o'clock one afternoon last week five diplomats were sitting down in the State Department to pen and ink. There were Dr. Cosme de la Torriente. Cuban Secretary of State, Dr. Manuel Marquez Sterling, Cuban Ambassador to Washington, and Secretary Hull. There also were Assistant Secretary Sumner Welles and Jefferson Caffery, the past and present Ambassadors to Cuba. Their purpose was to set their hands and seals upon the first reciprocal trade agreement negotiated under the new tariff bargaining law (TIME, June 18). A few minutes later...
...nine harassed politicos who have been President of hectic Chile since 1929 have had no time for dams?not even for South America's biggest. Last week it was inaugurated not by that suave old diplomat and champion Chilean wangler. President Arturo Alessandri but by his hard-driving Minister of Agriculture, Don Matias Silva...
...shocker came from the League's own President of the Governing Commission of the Saar, His Excellency Geoffrey George Knox, a swank British career diplomat with the manners of a Curzon and something of the late Marquess' talent for playing the Viceroy. Many a Saar citizen calls the League's Governing Commission the Negerregierung or "Government for Negroes," implying that Mr. Knox treats 100% Nordic, German-speaking Saar folk as if they were, to say the least, his social inferiors. Next January the League Commission must hold a plebiscite to decide whether the Saar shall be reunited with Germany...