Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomat in recent years had more right to call for a celebration. The "triumph" of the Conference-and it was largely his-had apparently been reached with agreement that on Thursday a four-point resolution would be unanimously approved. The third point was to be the nub. It would declare: "The American republics . . . cannot continue diplomatic relations with Japan, Germany and Italy, since Japan has attacked and the others have declared war upon a country of our hemisphere...
...then to Sarajevo. Above every thing else they wanted a chance to send their reports to Britain and the U.S. But all phone lines were shut and the only radio station operating, as far as the correspondents could learn, was a tiny portable transmitter which belonged to a British diplomat. This was in use 24 hours a day pounding out messages asking for reinforcements from Greece, but finally the correspondents persuaded the operator to send a single 100-word dispatch signed with all their names...
Dismissing a diplomat's usual generalities, Mr. Welles spoke specifically of 218,600 tons of tin plate allocated for Latin America, new allocations of "20 essential agricultural and industrial chemicals," besides farm equipment, iron and steel products. When he spoke of the "shibboleth of classic neutrality," Señor Ruiz Guiñazú wiped his face with his handkerchief. When the Under Secretary concluded with a ringing declaration that democratic ideals "will yet triumph," Señor Ruiz Guiñazú fanned himself, being careful to use a scratch pad and not a copy (translated into Spanish...
...Going to Moscow was tweedy, handsome Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr, 59, Ambassador to China since 1938. An aristocratic Scotsman and career diplomat, Sir Archibald became noted among the Chinese for his personal and official friendliness. He was instrumental in selling the idea of China's thousands of industrial cooperatives to Mme. Chiang Kaishek, treated the Japanese aggressors in China with such flat, undiplomatic candor that whenever he went into Japanese-fringed Shanghai he had to wear a bulletproof vest. He will be succeeded in China by Sir Horace James Seymour, 56, Assistant Under Secretary of State...
...pressure will fall on the shoulders of Argentina's Foreign Minister. A career diplomat and author of heavy works on jurisprudence, Ruiz Guiñazú rose from obscurity to president of the League of Nations Council because Argentina alphabetically led off the member nations. Descendant of an autocratic Spanish family and stubborn stickler for legal details, he is temperamentally simpático with Acting President Castillo but out of tune with popular sentiment. Officially quiet under "state-of-siege" orders, Argentines began the New Year with a spate of "last-time" hilarity, as if they realized there might...