Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Washington dopesters wondered whether Diplomat Grew was advance man for a new official U.S. line, based on an understanding with Britain and China. This suspicion was strengthened by the New Year's Day message of China's Chiang Kaishek. Said the Generalissimo, who is the man to see about the Japanese future: at Cairo he and Messrs. Roosevelt & Churchill had agreed...
Although his face was lined and showed clearly the strain of his position, the 51-year old diplomat seemed cordial and was not at all reluctant to speak of the Far East crisis. He smoked continually but by no means nervously...
...State Department was thoroughly scooped on the Bolivian revolt. No hint or word of the impending uprising had come from the U.S. Ambassador, socialite Pierre de Lagarde Boal (rhymes with goal), an elegant career diplomat whose dispatches have unfailingly reflected the views of Bolivian tin-mine owners. From able Norman Armour, Ambassador to Argentina, there had been hints of forthcoming trouble, but since Norman Armour's business is Argentina, they were no more than that. The State Department had no solid, fresh information on which to base judgments on Bolivian affairs...
...George Washington Kavanaugh and Lady Decies were, as usual, solidly barnacled with jewelry. Lucius Beebe, who had condescended to the wartime informality of a black tie, apologized: "I feel as naked as a jay bird." Somebody stole a mink coat while its owner, the wife of a South American diplomat, was not looking. It was said that Lily Pons had lost an emerald. An air-raid warden, in a tuxedo, white arm band and white steel helmet, wandered around the lobby announcing a blackout. "The most individual and interesting performer," averred New York Times Critic Olin Downes, ". . . was the horse...
Soon the Ponsonby finger was in every royal pie. But the bulk of his day was filled with the endless routine of court problems, royal disapproval and viewing-with-alarm. "The Queen would be grateful," he wrote to a diplomat, "if you would request her Charge d'Affaires at Dresden to take a less humorous view of Royal funerals." From the Dean of Windsor he had to find out whether the British Government "officially believe in Purgatory." There were hundreds of importunate requests to submit to the monarch: Oscar Wilde asked permission to copy some of the poetry "written...