Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oliver Franks, Britain's keen, contemplative Ambassador to the U.S., is first of all a professor of moral philosophy, secondly a diplomat. He did such a good job of prodding Western Europe into uniting under the Marshall Plan that Britain allowed him only a short tour as provost of Oxford's Queen's College before drafting him for Washington duty last...
...Dispatch, Candidate Stevenson was hitting hard at graft, shakedowns and kickbacks in the state administration. Cried the News: "The Green administration . . . nourishes a swarm of grafters, chiselers and racketeers who grow bolder every year." Even if Pete Green rode into a third term on the Republican tide, socialite Lawyer-Diplomat Stevenson was learning some lessons for the future in the rough & tumble of Illinois politics. Said Stevenson: "If it's true that politics is the art of compromise, I've had a good start; my mother was a Republican and a Unitarian, my father was a Democrat...
Will the British Cook? A good many U.S. and British policymakers were reluctant to base a European defense system on France. Said one British diplomat in Paris: "The Communists or their informers sit in every French ministry. What can you tell them, I ask you? Any military secret we reveal will be in Moscow in 15 minutes...
...wisecracking about their home states (e.g., "New England was founded by hypocrisy, and Texas . . . by sin"). When the smoke cleared away, NBC and CBS had canceled their Government contracts. The Voice got a new appropriation of nearly $12 million and was made one of the chores of able Career Diplomat George Allen, new Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs...
...open in America." While they waited for the company to arrive from Montreal, Chicago's socialites and Franco-American clubs prepared a Bourbonic welcome. There would be a huge party backstage in the famous Gold Key room on opening night. And the French Embassy was sending a diplomat to make it official...