Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Franklin Roosevelt appointed as American Commissioner his well-stuffed old friend Herbert Claiborne Pell, 59, of Newport, R.I. Best remembered job of Diplomat Pell was as U.S. Minister to Portugal, where he benevolently, talkatively steered hundreds of jittery refugees and distinguished Americans through Lisbon...
...country's unity. As negotiator between De Gaulle and Giraud he made many a trip between Algiers and London before the two French leaders finally met. French men have known him as a many-sided, yet singleminded, person-a lover of Siamese cats, a devotee of Montaigne, a diplomat as well as soldier, a great Colonial. He met Henri Giraud while both were serving under the late, great Marshal Lyautey against the Riffs. He learned to call Charles de Gaulle mon cher after he quit the Vichyfrench governorship of Indo-China and joined the Fighting French. Now, under Georges...
After consultation with his committee, Diplomat Acheson will appoint a field director for each liberated (or to-be-liberated) territory. The director will act as operations manager for all the agencies represented on the committee...
...their first meeting the Generals brought the representatives they had agreed on after weeks of negotiation. For De Gaulle: Andre Philip, Socialist deputy in contact with the French underground, and Rene Massigli, veteran diplomat. For Giraud: Jean Monnet, able businessman, well known in Washington and London, and General Alphonse Joseph Georges, No. 2 in military command during 1940's lost Battle of France. As seventh man and balance wheel: tactful General Georges Catroux, chief intermediary in arranging the Algiers conference...
...Diplomat's Defeat. The breaking of the deadlock had been preceded by secret talks among General Giraud, General de Gaulle, Minister Murphy and his British colleague, canny Harold MacMillan, who commented: "Better to have an argument now than civil war in France later." Winston Churchill may also have had something to say. Clearly London and Washington were pleased over the agreement in Algiers. But to broad-shouldered, ingratiating Bob Murphy, whose inclinations - and those of many of his operatives - are toward the Best People and not the People, the victory of De Gaullism was a sharp defeat...