Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intriguing European diplomats have long regarded their phlegmatic British rivals as men of diabolic cunning. They compress their admiration and envy into the epithet, perfidious Albion. Even Heinrich Heine warned against "the treacherous and murderous intrigues of those Carthaginians of the North Sea." Writer-Diplomat Harold Nicolson in his Diplomacy, published last fortnight, says British diplomats seem "treacherous" because they are amateurish, opportunist, childishly simple, sentimental. Salient traits of British diplomacy to Author Nicolson are a "national distaste for logic and a national preference for dealing with situations after they have arisen rather than before they arise...
...Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Viscount Clandeboye and Earl of Dufferin and Earl of Ava, P.C., K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. He added Egypt and Burma to the British Empire. Harold Nicolson's father was Sir Arthur Nicolson, Baron Carnock, of Carnock, British diplomat in such outposts as Teheran (where Child Harold was born), Constantinople and Vienna. When, after 20 years of foreign service, Harold Nicolson renounced diplomacy for authoring, he wrote overtly laudatory, covertly ironical lives of his uncle and father, Lord Curzon and U. S. Financier-Diplomat Dwight W. Morrow...
While Wang Ching-wei was trying to get in down south, Wang Keh-min was trying to get out up north. Since early in 1938 the latter has been head of the North China Provisional Government in Peking. The perfect puppet, he was educated and served as a diplomat in Japan, had a long but never spectacular career as politician and financial manipulator under successive North China regimes. Decrepit at 60, he looks as if he had been made of cheap Japanese materials. For some time he has wanted desperately to resign. For several weeks he has refused even...
...international conferences, and at Geneva, London, Locarno and other diplomatic stamping grounds, everyone except the French described the young Italian as "dynamic," "charming," "electric," and "captivating." While Il Duce thundered about Mare Nostrum and armed Italy as fast as he could, Diplomat Grandi talked disarmament and assured the world of Italy's peaceful intentions. With the French, rulers of the Geneva roost, he engaged in a never-ending fight for prestige. At the height of his career as Foreign Minister he paid a goodwill visit to the U. S. and chatted amiably with President Hoover and Secretary of State...
...have been excused, but when the Count and Countess showed up for a hunting expedition arranged by the Regent four hours late with only the excuse they had overslept, there were strained feelings. Latest trip that the Cianos took together was to Poland. There was some speculation that Axis Diplomat Edda would use her wiles to persuade Poland to join the Axis, but nothing came of the trip, and a few weeks later Poland definitely turned her back on Germany and Italy...