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Word: diplomatic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: A Plateau of Tension | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Getting Warmer | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Watch on the Rhine | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Le Pick-Up Americain | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Great Tradition | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

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