Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Attributed to James I's Ambassador to Venice Author-Diplomat Sir Henry Wotton. *From Tokyo, MacArthur put a prompt stop to a hopeful suggestion by the committee that he return to testify on the bill. Said MacArthur: "The heavy pressure of my duties renders it impracticable for me to leave my post here at the present time...
...Premier's Cabinet, like that of outgoing Premier Tetsu Katayama ("TIME, Feb. 23), would be formed from a shaky coalition of Democrats, Socialists and the small People's Cooperative Party. The prospects for Ashida were not encouraging, but the 60-year-old former diplomat throught he could succeed where Katayama had failed. Said he: "I will do my utmost...
...Britain chose to replace him was lean, ascetic Sir Oliver Shewell Franks, 43, a philosopher-turned-economist who was born in the year that Inverchapel first headed into the foreign service. No conventional diplomat, Sir Oliver is one of the little group of keen-minded young Oxford dons who rocketed to prominence in wartime government service. He is an emotionless factfinder who has been described as the most unneurotic man in Britain...
...Plan. Cord Meyer is the son of a wealthy New York real estate man and onetime diplomat. Before World War II, he was a top honor student at Yale and editor of the Yale Lit. After he was wounded and sent home from the Pacific, he married Mary Pinchot, the comely niece of Pennsylvania's late Governor Gifford Pinchot. He had got started on his crusade when he served as "veteran aide" to Delegate Harold Stassen at the San Francisco Conference. There he saw the United Nations born. He deplored the veto, which left U.N. virtually powerless to prevent...
Though a career diplomat, Lane has written a blunt and frank report. Where it falls down badly is in the writing. Lane uses that jargon habitual to diplomats, a dialect sometimes confused with English, which makes his occasional revelations seem as blandly dull as his report of an exchange of diplomatic amenities...