Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Husky Ralph J. Bunche, the U.S. diplomat who negotiated the Palestine armistice for U.N., went to the White House last week for a talk with Harry Truman. The President had asked him to become an Assistant Secretary of State, the highest Government post ever offered a Negro. Bunche was greatly honored, he told President Truman-but he had decided to turn it down...
...Veteran Diplomat Vijaya Lakshm Pandit, sister of India's Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and first woman ambassador to the U.S., talked to newsmen about how to be realistic in diplomacy: "You can't rely on [just] words and promises...
...Bless Him." A fighter whose job it is to help the Greeks fight, Van Fleet has shortcomings both as a diplomat and as an administrator. He has had his full share of criticism. He has been accused of being naive, bossy, publicity-conscious. His relations with Ambassador Grady are on the cool side, but he gets along well with Generalissimo Papagos. King Paul frequently joins the U.S. general on inspection trips to the fighting areas. Greeks who like Van Fleet, and most do, say that he is sincere san paidi-"like a child...
...members of the Altoguirre and Jaudenes families (his real name is Alvarez Jaudenes). They had come from all over Spain, to claim title not to a castle in Spain, but to a castle in America. All were armed with "proof" that they were descendants of an 18th Century Spanish diplomat and his English wife who left a U.S. fortune estimated at $300 million-part of which included the land on which the White House stands...
...week, the "foreign press" had indeed speculated feverishly on the Berlin situation. The Paris newspaper Figaro reported that a tall, dark, mysterious man, who was neither a diplomat nor a Russian, had gone to Washington to extend "feelers." U.S. newspapermen picked up many a remote sound and relayed it homewards...