Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House statement on the changes said that "an important diplomatic post" would soon be found for capable career diplomat Norman Armour, ex-Ambassador to Argentina. With most top European assignments filled, dopesters guessed that Armour's next assignment would be Brazil, Breckinridge Long-so went the guesses-would probably go to Cuba as Ambassador; but gnomelike Adolph Berle will probably return to his New York law practice...
...September to confer with Chiang Kai-shek at a tragically low point in China's fortunes. The Chungking Government, after seven years of war, was teetering on the brink of economic and military disaster. With the recall to Washington of General Joe Stilwell and Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss, Diplomat Hurley took over the thankless, monumental job of watching out for the best interests of both the U.S. and Ally China. It was not Pat's first hard chore...
Miloje Smiljanich, career diplomat in King Peter's Government and head of the Yugoslav delegation to the Allied Advisory Council in Rome, was at lunch in delegation quarters. Suddenly Marshal Tito's aging (75) Foreign Minister Josip Smodlaka confronted him. Curtly Smodlaka told Smiljanich to have the full delegation staff on hand at 3 p.m. next...
While foreign observers speculated that Voroshilov might be sent abroad as a diplomat; or to Siberia to head Russia's Far Eastern armies, the Kremlin said nothing. All that most Russians knew was that little announcements of this portentousness do not appear inconspicuously in Izvestia without a reason...
...stepped Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin, 49. Bulganin had risen slowly in the Soviet hierarchy. He had been a textile worker, organizer of city Soviets, mayor of Moscow, a member of the Supreme Soviet, vice chairman of the Council of People's Commissars. Neither a soldier nor a diplomat by training, he was both a general and Soviet representative to the Polish National Council of Liberation...