Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, as Lew Douglas flew back to No. I Grosvenor Square from consultations in Washington, he was the most important diplomat of the most powerful nation in the world. In his fat calfskin briefcase he carried the skeleton of the most ambitious economic foreign policy in history: the reconstruction of Western Europe. In 1947, U.S. diplomacy was big business, as big as the enormous wealth and prestige of the richest and most powerful nation on earth...
...which to wreck the Marshall Plan on the shoals of disorder in Europe, on the rocks of the great U.S. depression which Moscow believes imminent. Moscow is by no means ready for full-fledged international war, but neither does it want peace. In the phrase of a top British diplomat, it wants a "twilight zone" between peace and war. Quite satisfactory twilights have been produced in Greece and China. It is time, in Moscow's eyes, for twilight to roll westward, along the course...
...Four got down to preliminary work at Lancaster House. They were a professional crew: the U.S.'s political expert on Germany, Ambassador Robert D. Murphy; Patrick Dean of the British Foreign Office; Andrei A. Smirnov of Russia's Foreign Ministry; and France's career diplomat Jacques Tarbe de St. Hardouin. Their job was not to negotiate, merely to set' up the issues which Marshall, Bevin, Bidault and Molotov would consider...
...fiery President Gabriel González Videla was concerned, the Communists had asked for it. They had struck Chile's coal mines; he had expelled a Yugoslav diplomat on charges of pulling the strings (TIME, Oct. 20). And last week, when his troops were restoring order in the Lota coal fields, 2,000 Communist-dominated last-ditchers barricaded themselves in a mine tunnel and set off dynamite charges in front of advancing Chilean soldiers...
Died. Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, second Earl of Lytton, 71, diplomat, grandson of Novelist Bulwer-Lytton (The Last Days of Pompeii); of a heart attack; in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England. Lord Lytton, whose father as Viceroy proclaimed Queen Victoria Empress of India, was Viceroy himself for four months in 1925 and headed the League of Nations' futile 1932 peace mission to Manchuria...