Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jimmy Byrnes's political life had largely been spent on domestic affairs. He had gone to Europe a dozen or so times, mostly for pleasure. He had been to the Orient once, for two months. And he has none of the outward habits and manners of the traditional diplomat...
...omissions, with the possible exception of Field Marshal Alfred Kesselring and Industrialist Fritz von Thyssen. Industrialist Gustav Krupp von Bohlen was there, and so were Militarists Keitel, Jodl, Raeder and Doenitz. There were Financiers Funk and Schacht, ex-Foreign Ministers von Neurath and von Ribbentrop and the cloak-&-dagger diplomat, Franz von Papen; there were names once famous in the Nazi hierarchy -Hess and Streicher, Ley and Rosenberg, and Gauleiter Seyss-Inquart (Netherlands) and von Schirach (Austria). And along with the familiar names were others: Sauckel, the slave-herder; Hans Fritzsche, the propagandist; ex-Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick; Ernst Kalten...
...think of the plane?" Said he, with noticeable lack of fervor: "Very efficient." Ambassador Hurley would not think of letting the Communist leader ride in the limousine provided by the Generalissimo. He hustled Mao into his own black Cadillac. As they drove off, the high-spirited Oklahoma diplomat, whose Choctaw war whoops are the delight of Asia, yelled to the astonished crowd: "Olive oil! Olive...
Living Spirit. In other Latin American countries - Cuba, Chile, Colombia, and even Argentina - smaller colonies worked hard "keeping alive the spirit of Republican Spain." And in Russia thousands of Spanish children were housed and educated. Socialist-minded Diplomat de Palencia does not dwell on the political activities of the Republic's refugees, does her best to lay the bogey of Communism that has so damaged the Loyalist cause in America. But her book leaves no doubt that doctrinal disputes mean far less to her than does a united front to carry the smouldering torch of freedom back to Spain...
Soldiers also rioted. When Dr. Alberto Maria Candioti, former Argentine Ambassador to Mexico, reprimanded them, he was told that they were obeying "superior orders." Said a diplomat who had been in Berlin during the early days of Hitler: "Just like the brown shirts...