Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl of Halifax was planning a final trip through the country he knows better than any other foreign diplomat, and more widely than most U.S. citizens. A speaking tour in Nebraska and Kansas would bring the total of states he has visited...
Even more remarkable: Zacharias had pointed out to the Admiral that there were then two Jap envoys in Washington, Nomura and Kurusu. "When the third one arrives," he said, "you can look for it to break immediately." The third Japanese diplomat, Tatsuyi Sakamoto, Ambassador to Peru, arrived in Washington...
Goateed, greying, ace Soviet diplomat Jacob Surits has a habit of popping up in key spots. He was at Geneva in 1939 when the League of Nations prepared to expel Russia for the war with Finland. As Soviet Ambassador to France in 1940, Surits was declared persona non grata for cabling home harsh criticism of "Anglo-French warmongers." Last week the U.S.S.R. had named him their first Ambassador to Brazil, where the Communists had rolled up an unexpected 600,000-odd votes in the recent elections...
...everything a career diplomat should have: he was wealthy, studious, shrewd, affable, full of both principle and humor. Colleagues in the State Department regarded him with awe. One of them once said: "You can't compare Armour to anyone else in the service; he's one of a species, like Lincoln...
...Armour was ready to step down. Like the good diplomat he was, he gave no reasons other than fatigue and a sense of duty done. But it was clear that he had found few satisfactions in Madrid; he told newsmen that he had observed no effective opposition to Franco inside Spain, no signs of reform...