Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to go on giving aid, we must clearly look forward to the day when either the aid works or-if it is not going to do the job . . . we'd better know now rather than later." Bob Lovett's tone was soft, but no European diplomat missed the note of warning. This week, with George Kennan looking over their shoulders, the conferees started to do some trimming...
Lots of Harmony. Last week the Indian girl, now a handsome 47-year-old diplomat, was still finding her destiny in dangerous company. When Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, sister of India's Premier Nehru, and the new Dominion's first Ambassador to Soviet Russia, stepped out of a gleaming Air India DC-3 at Moscow's Vnukovo airport early last month, she got a big reception. Amid the welcoming crowd, portly K. A. Kochetkov, acting chief of protocol, presented her with flowers and showed her unctuously into a new Zis sedan...
...improved. ... [But] I am convinced that no responsible statesman in any country can, or does, contemplate the prospect of war." For the immediate future Lie was probably right; but Lake Success was haunted by the fear that a fateful day would come when Andrei Gromyko, the Neanderthal diplomat, would hunch his shoulders and follow his bulbous nose out of a door for the last time...
Visitor from the South. Famed Host Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil's most accomplished diplomat, would not be a delegate -he could never have played second fiddle to his rival, Foreign Minister Raul Fernandes-but he was sure to get in diplomatic licks with small get-togethers for Marshall, Vandenberg and other bigwigs...
...Francisco Negrao de Lima, the Brazilian diplomat who had tried unsuccessfully to mediate between Morínigo and the rebels, gave the Dictator only a few more days. Said he: "The end seems close...