Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife showed, Joseph Stalin was the most feared man of 1945. By his followers in every country he was also the most admired. But he did not dominate the year. And he ended it amidst rumors of ill health, amidst mounting speculation whether his successor would be Diplomat Molotov or Soldier Zhukov...
Other occupied countries of Europe have turned their backs on this problem. France merely conferred citizenship on illegitimate children of French women and "unknown" fathers. In Washington a diplomat from a country occupied for years by the Nazis took this line: "I heard in my country of only one case. A girl had from a German soldier a baby against her will. As soon as the baby was born, she killed it." Norway, which three decades ago took the lead in abolishing the stigma of illegitimacy, has decided that facts should not only be faced, but lived with...
...International suspicion would not abate until the Russians were convinced that the U.S. did not intend to use the atomic bomb as a diplomatic threat. "We want to keep our skirts clean on the bomb," said one U.S. diplomat...
...rowdies, the Storm Troopers, the policemen among them could easily see a connection between themselves and the charges against them. But Alfred Rosenberg could protest that he was just a quiet philosopher, and Julius Streicher a plain newspaper editor, and Joachim von Ribbentrop a diplomat who served his country...
When it was all over they danced in the streets, shouting, "Enver Hoxha, Enver Hoxha." The counting would not be completed for several days. But they knew that their future was in the hands of this 37-year-old leader who had learned French as an Albanian diplomat in Belgium, ran a flower shop to mask his activities against King Zog, led the guerrillas against the Italians and Germans...