Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sounded a lot like the old Bossy, and, to some extent, it was. "I'm getting rusty . . . I'm 53 now," explained Bossy, "but I'm still no diplomat...
...Ralph Bunche, then a graduate student at Harvard, walked in and asked for a job. Phillips hired him; the future diplomat's first assignment consisted of scrubbing the floor. "Mind you," Phillips asserts, "he did as good a job scrubbing that floor as he did as mediator in Palestine." Bunche only worked in the store for a year, but his ability impressed his employer greatly...
Consul General Angus Ward hurried from a Communist people's court in Mukden, Manchuria last week to telephone the news to the nearest American diplomat, 400 miles away in Peiping. Ward and four members of his consulate staff had been freed from a Communist jail and were to be deported from Red China...
...advice have no official rank. One is Robert Pferdmenges, partner in the Cologne banking firm of Salomon Oppenheim & Co., and, unlike many a Ruhr magnate, no Nazi supporter; he acts as Adenauer's economic counsel. The other is boyish-looking, 45-year-old Herbert Blankenhorn, a former German diplomat who served in the prewar German embassy in Washington; his task is to smooth Adenauer's relations with the Allies...
...diplomat admitted that the Yugoslav press "is not free, in your sense," but then asked: "Is your press free...