Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diplomat." Waving his arms, "Butch" LaGuardia warned the foreign delegates of something they might not know: that he is "no diplomat." Cried he: "Protocol is off. ... I want plows, not typewriters. . . . Ticker tape ain't spaghetti. ... I want fast-moving ships...
...neither case was the effort at conformity more than superficial. The fate of the Old Bolshevik word "commissar" was just a finishing touch in Russia's new nationalism. Commented one U.S. diplomat: "Now they have everything back but the Czar...
Said a minor diplomat, more expressive of the general mood: "I'm not scared, I'm depressed, damned depressed. You see this is all so much like 1938 and Munich, with one difference. Now we know what Munich meant...
...diplomat thought it had still to be shown that Russia was the same kind of implacable enemy as Hitler. Official Britain thought the same; at week's end it still stood on the conviction that Russia would halt short of anything that would bring...
Genial, spherical, Honduran Ambassador Julián Cáceres met another Latin American diplomat at a Washington reception. "I say, Caceres," said the friend, "TIME reports the Honduran opposition is using 'Pinos de Honduras' for a slogan, and your President of Congress maintains that a revolutionary ought to be hanged from each pine. What luck you aren't a revolutionary. The pine would surely break...