Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swarthy, Canadian Rhodes Scholar, Gelber is a professional diplomat as well as an ex-professor. After teaching international relations at the University of Toronto, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943, and worked in what he call "ricochet political warfare," before taking his present...
...European diplomat in Washington summed up the reaction of many of his colleagues to current international developments. He said: "In the inner circles of our Government it is no longer a question of whether or not we are on the eve of a world war. The question we would like answered is-will the U.S. make its stand on the Elbe or the Pyrenees...
Distinguished Diplomat...
Into Washington one day last week flew Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, a part-time diplomat, back from his fact-finding foray to China. He wore a diplomat's dark, double-breasted suit and a forbiddingly noncommunicative air. His pack of reports and recommendations was rushed to the State Department, where it was promptly labeled top secret...
Victor F. W. Cavendish-Bentinck, Britain's ex-Ambassador to Poland (and, just before that, Ambassador-designate to Brazil), was out a job. The far-ranging diplomat broke into the news last spring when his infidelities in Chile, London, and Athens came out at his wife's divorce trial. Last week he was in the news again: he was quietly dropped from the Foreign Service after 25 years...