Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London: adroit René Massigli, a cold, analytical career diplomat who was slow to get off the Vichy wagon but has nevertheless won De Gaulle's confidence. ¶ In Washington: lean, able Henri Bonnet, who put in eleven years with the League of Nations and joined forces with De Gaulle in 1940. He and Mme. Bonnet came to the U.S. that year, barely managed to get along-he by writing and teaching, she by running a hat shop in Manhattan. His books (Outline of the Future, The United Nations on the Way) reflected his strong belief in a world...
Congratulations. Former Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. got a great welcome when he arrived in Brazil, as new U.S. Ambassador. Reason: the Brazilians congratulated themselves because he was the first noncareer U.S. diplomat who had been sent to them. To them it meant that the job of Ambassador to Brazil was now considered a political reward...
...years later, when Mexico resumed diplomatic relations with Russia, the Kremlin sent Constantine Oumansky as Ambassador to Mexico. Soon he was the most popular diplomat there. His sumptuous Embassy in Mexico City, with its big autographed picture of Stalin, was the most crowded social center in the Mexican capital. In no time, he had won friends for Russia all over Latin America. Now & again a suspicious voice would ask why Russia had sent such a top-drawer diplomat to Mexico City. There were rumors of Russian undercover activity. But Ambassador Oumansky's conduct was always scrupulously correct...
Some of the problems of mutual understanding that will arise when the Big Three meet were typified in small when the wife of a U.S. diplomat questioned a Soviet general at a recent dinner party...
...World War II's five years he has come up from major to major general, has won a string of decorations. He has got around-as a sort of Air Forces diplomat. He got along with the Russians, helped persuade them to give the Allies bomber bases. He got along with the British as Eisenhower's deputy air commander in London (the British refer to his tactical planning as "outstanding"). He was at the Quebec, Cairo and Teheran conferences...