Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss-local (The Bronx) and national-for 22 years. Ed Flynn's unswerving loyalty to Franklin Roosevelt might recommend him as a personal envoy. But of the talents necessary for a representative of the U.S. people, Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News said: "He is not a diplomat. He has had no foreign experience. He has had no military experience. He has no particular familiarity with Australia or with Pacific problems...
...design for future peace moved him a long step from the isolationist thinking that permeated his own party before Pearl Harbor. Last spring he had made a clean break, lined up for U.S. world participation in his book The Problems of a Lasting Peace, jointly written with Diplomat Hugh Gibson (TIME, July 6). Last week, in his speech before the Chicago Executives Club, he was substantially in agreement with the broad world program of men like Sumner Welles, Henry Wallace, Anthony Eden...
...sensitive nerve end in U.S.-Asiatic relations-the absence of American diplomats whose prestige matches the importance of Asia in the 1942 world-Franklin Roosevelt applied some balm last week. To serve as his "personal representative" in India he appointed suave, gracious William Phillips, a top-flight career diplomat who has held many an important post since he left Harvard Law School for the State Department...
...Ambassador Phillips' new mission* does not mean that the U.S. intends to abandon its hands-off policy in the bitter struggle over India's political status. At 64, Ambassador Phillips is a patient, conservative diplomat who has never ruffled feathers nor interfered with history. And to clear up any possible doubt, Franklin Roosevelt said plainly: his representative carries no plans and no formulas...
This sentiment might well have been heeded long since by President Ramon S. Castillo. He had had concrete evidence of Nazi espionage within his country when a Gestapo agent and "diplomat," Gottfried Sandstede escaped (TIME, Sept. 8, 1941). As Argentines gathered on Pearl Harbor Day, he had more evidence, again pointing directly to Buenos Aires' German Embassy...