Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said one foreign diplomat: "We have no reason for pleasant memories of the Republican Administrations in the economic field...
...youthful diplomat had to reiterate his statements after the lecture when, in a question-and-answer period, an audience spokesman requested assurance that the Austrians would establish a democratic government if freed from Allied military occupation, and again when a second questioner was skeptical about Nazi influence in Austria...
...even though the speech was mild (for a Soviet diplomat), it was still based on the infuriating axiom that anything Russia does is manifestly right and good. Molotov denounced U.S.-British "imperialists" as "new claimants to world domination," railed against "dollar democracy" and "money bags," charged (falsely) that the Baruch Plan sought a U.S. monopoly on the atom bomb. He displayed colossal but typical impudence when, as executor of one of the world's most brutal foreign policies, he charged certain circles in the West with using "extreme methods of pressure and violence." His speech was far sharper than...
Meanwhile, however, the U.S. delegates had perked up when they heard Alexandrov talking about "balance sheets." Would the balance sheets, they asked, be "audited"-that is, checked by some outside agency? Remembering that he is more of a scientist than a diplomat, Professor Alexandrov pulled in his neck. He was not prepared to answer right away, he said, but would bring the matter up again at some later time...
Miss Hellman says that the American tendency to look the other way during the prewar years had a lot to do with the war, and that our diplomats had better take off their blinders if we want peace. She says it by showing a diplomat, in the center of Europe throughout the twenties and thirties, but completely oblivious to the malignant growth of militarism. Constantly prodded through Miss Hellman by the woman he loves, but never marries, he continues blithely to believe in conciliation until the war breaks out. His wife, a social lioness, is equally calm. Both remain blind...