Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hoare's book is in spots awkwardly written and, indeed, reads more like a diplomat's memoranda than a historian's account. The occasional unhappy phrasing and general lack of literary polish, however, is not conspicuous in a work such as this, and should not annoy students of modern Spain, for whom it should be required reading...
...plain by now that the deputies' conference might serve merely as a preliminary to semifinals, not finals. The Foreign Ministers, when they meet in Moscow in March, are expected to throw most of the problems back to the deputies, with more or less specific instructions. A high U.S. diplomat last week estimated that it might be anywhere from nine months to two years before the peace treaty with Germany is finally written...
...nights later, Yugoslav Ambassador Sava N. Kosanovic, a relatively minor diplomat, had 120 guests in to hear his compatriot, Violinist Zlatko Balakovic, give a recital. He, too, had Senators and a minister, and his party had a fine international air-although his official hostess, one Dr. Mica Trbojezic, did run around popping little meatballs into her guests' mouths...
...rnberg International Military Tribunal acquitted three top Nazis-Radio Spokesman Hans Fritzsche, Banker Hjalmar Schacht, Diplomat Franz von Papen-of war crimes. In Nürnberg last week, the lantern-jawed Fritzsche found his fellow Germans less forgiving. A denazification court sentenced Fritzsche to nine years at hard labor for "political crimes against the German people," stripped him of civil rights and property (including the privilege of ever, again owning an automobile...
Booking Agent. In Rome, an extraordinary Argentine emissary had already begun the selecting. He was the Rev. Jose Clemente Silva, member of the Salesian order and brother of President Peron's military secretary. His mission: to find in Italy and Spain (while Diplomat Adolfo Scilingo scouted the rest of Europe) the 250,000 workers, preferably skilled factory hands, whom Juan Peron needs for his five-year plan...