Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diplomat from Texas Sir: In your Sept. 26 issue you mention "State's Assistant Secretary Jack Hickerson." This name, among our diplomatic representatives, has never caught my eye before. Thirty years ago I "lost" a schoolmate at University of Texas who said he was going into diplomacy. His name was Jack (John D.) Hickerson . . . We worked our way through school delivering newspapers and owning a shoeshine parlor . . . Is he our old friend...
Spunky Little Man. Once a rather dowdy (though brilliant) history professor, Georges Bidault suddenly blossomed out after liberation as a dapper diplomat and statesman. Britain's Ernest Bevin had once patronizingly called him "this dear little man," but Bidault had been almost the only one in Charles de Gaulle's postliberation entourage with spunk enough to argue against the stiff-backed general. Son of a devoutly Catholic, well-to-do insurance broker, Georges Bidault had sided with the Spanish Loyalists, denounced Munich and become a top executive in the French underground. Before he married in 1945, he seemed...
When it became apparent that the Communists would overrun China, many a U.S. diplomat welcomed a chance to stay at his post and see how Asia's new imperialists would operate. Last week, the U.S. had news of three...
Died. Vladimir Hurban, 66, Czechoslovakia's veteran diplomat, onetime minister (1936-43) and ambassador (1943-46) to the U.S., who in 1939 refused the German demand that he surrender his embassy, thereafter stood as a wartime symbol of resistance to Naziism; of a heart ailment; in Prague...
...Communists have sticky little bourgeois problems, it appeared from the autobiography of Oksana Kasenkina, the schoolteacher who escaped last year from the U.S.S.R.'s New York consulate by jumping out of a third-floor window. In her Leap to Freedom, Mrs. Kasenkina tells how the wife of Soviet Diplomat Andrei Gromyko appealed for her help in vetoing a romance between Gromyko's adolescent son Anatoli and pretty young Klava, who, after all, was only the daughter of a lowly embassy chauffeur...