Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...importance of little Shigenori Togo in this huge picture was grotesquely exaggerated. He is a mild, faint-voiced career diplomat who has never wielded real weight in Japanese politics. As a negotiator in Russia he was probably no more than Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka's on-the-spot agent...
After a night in Manhattan, Ambassador Grew, at 62 the ablest, most polished U.S. career diplomat in the field, went to Washington to report to his boss, Franklin Roosevelt, then closeted himself in a hideaway in the State Department and prepared a radio address to the U.S. people. Said...
...something to do with William Powell's rising from the oblivion of permanent amnesia to become a high-ranking French diplomat. And then there's an attempt to prove that in his preamnesia days he was a murderer and a rat who even double-crossed his partners in crime, and sometimes you get the idea that he really was this mythical other man, and all the time you hope it turns out that he was, just to see what the rules say about punishing Dr. Jekyll for something Mr. Hyde did. But either being thoroughly stumped or just plain having...
Characters. Thus, if all three men were present and in character, would Stalin the dictator, Churchill the imperialist and Bullitt the diplomat have appeared last week. But whether Churchill or Bullitt, or even Stalin, was actually in Moscow none but Nazi radio announcers professed to know. Even so, it was a good bet that they were, and that somewhere inside the Kremlin there was being played out an amazing scene in the drama of World...
Direct Action. As a toughened-up career diplomat (his wife knitted socks with a revolver at her side while he dug air-raid shelters in Addis Ababa), trouble-wise Envoy Engert knows the Axis technique of penetration and disruption. He also knows that Afghanistan's 245,000-square-mile "kingdom of tumult" is the doorway through which all the land armies of history have fought their way to the riches of India...