Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York harbor last week aboard the 5. S. American Legion sailed Hugh Simons Gibson, Grade A career diplomat, to take over his new job as Ambassador to Brazil. With him went his dark, distinguished wife, sorry to leave her native Belgium where her husband had been Ambassador for six years. Mr. Gibson used to be President Hoover's Man-About-Europe until replaced by President Roosevelt's Norman Hezekiah Davis...
...chat with Queen Elisabeth, a fellow-fiddler. Few days before L'Eventail, Brussels socialite weekly, had commented: "Mr. Morris on getting off the train that brought him to Brussels was seen to be carrying a violin case. Everyone noticed it and everyone was favorably impressed. This diplomat is a musician and he must be passionately fond of music to carry his violin himself. We like diplomats who are artists...
...firm prior to 1928: Felix Warburg, elected 1896, now active only in an advisory capacity, whose chief concern today is with the long tier of filing cabinets containing the desiers of his numberless charities which stand behind his desk in the K. L. office; Otto Kahn, elected 1897, diplomat of the firm, whose numerous public and private appearances, not to mention ill health, have in recent years reduced his time...
Berlin replied to this with typical Nazi bumbling. Press attache of the Austrian legation in Berlin was a Dr. Erwin Wasserback. Dr. Wasserback's position as a diplomat had not only long been accepted but he was in addition a Catholic priest. No Austrian bombs have burst in Berlin, but German police promptly called at his house with a warrant. Dr. Wasserback hopped out of bed, picked up the telephone, called Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in London...
Andre de Laboulaye: Eminent as diplomat, whose nation and ours have in critical times helped each other, and must ever retain that precious memory...