Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Edward R. Stettinius' team, and went home. But New Deal Congressmen still had reservations about three, in particular, of the six appointees: William L. Clayton, whom they consider a "cartelist"; Brigadier General Julius C. Holmes, whom they partly blame for the Darlan policy in 1942; veteran Diplomat James Dunn, whom they regard as the villain of the U.S. appeasement policy toward Franco...
...Ambassador to Spain, Armour will replace a diplomat of a different type. A Columbia University history scholar, known to U.S. college students for his four-volume History of Modern Europe, Carlton Hayes had no diplomatic experience until he went to Spain in 1942. A front-rank Catholic layman who got on well with Dictator Franco, he was often criticized, mostly by the left-wing press, as an "appeaser." To avoid embarrassing President Roosevelt in an election year, he offered his resignation. Refused then, it is sure to be accepted...
...years. And the four new appointees also brought up fascinating side issues. A few Senators thought they detected the busy, ubiquitous hand of Harry Hopkins-and the Senate is never too busy to bombinate about Harry. Few had any criticism of Joseph Grew, a trained and tried career diplomat. But the big-money backgrounds of Businessmen Clayton and Rockefeller offered demagogues (and the left-wing press) a rare opportunity to orate against Wall Street. Anti-New Dealers saw a free chance to twang Poet MacLeish over the head with his own lyre...
...drawing room of Honingham Hall in England's Norfolk County, Sir Eric Teichman sat before a cosy fire and was content. Lunch was over and quiet lay on the big house. Then, from outside, came the sound of shots. Sir Eric, 60-year-old retired British diplomat and expert on Far Eastern affairs, rose from his armchair, growled to Lady Ellen: "I'm going out to stop this damned poaching." Unarmed, he set out to stop...
...good will, Stettinius had been successful, too, in his whirlwind London trip in April, where he spent Easter with Churchill, took a fine Virginia ham to the Prime Minister's wife, conferred with General Eisenhower, had a fireside chat with the King, and shook hands with every top diplomat in sight. (In England he was even more tweedy than the British.) Home again, he worked long on an elaborate chart "reorganizing" the State Department. The only major changes proved to be the disgruntled departures of such able men as Dr. Herbert Feis and Laurence Duggan, but this...