Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Couldn't you be a little less boisterous," the diplomat asked politely...
Britain's ex-Diplomat Harold Nicolson is no rookie in the wars of peacemaking. Some of his best, best-known books (Portrait of a Diplomatist; Curzon: The Last Phase) are centered around World War I's Versailles Conference, to which Nicolson was a delegate. More recently, he has been giving British radio listeners a blow-by-blow account of 1946's Paris Peace Conference. Few readers of this timely, lucid study of post-Napoleonic peacemaking will be able to resist drawing analogies between then and now-which is just what Author Nicolson warns them not to overdo...
Full of authority in a field command, he was no diplomat: he got lost in the jungles of Chinese and British high imperial policy. Chiang asked for his recall, and President Roosevelt consented...
...Wellington Koo, six times China's Foreign Minister, is his country's greatest diplomat. He has attended almost every major conference since Versailles, has been Ambassador to the U.S. since last July. Last week on Double Ten, * the Ambassador spoke out, giving the clearest explanation to date of the Chinese Government's efforts to deal with the implacable Chinese Communists. Excerpts...
...were "just a passenger." The procedure annoyed him. When he tried to phone the Soviet Consulate, an airline representative barred the way. Novikov drew his iron curtain about him and glared. A few minutes later, a customs inspector requested him to sign a baggage declaration. The diplomat, now fuming, refused, started off to call the State Department. The customs officials reconsidered, allowed him to stalk off without signing. The Soviet Embassy made formal protest; the State Department began investigating...