Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Black last week denied Ivanov's whole story. Actually all charges of espionage against Bulgarian Protestant churchmen are patently phony. As pastors of minority churches they have long been under surveillance. Said one U.S. diplomat who knows Bulgaria well: "The Protestant clergy has never been on the inside. To say that it could know about what is going on inside the government is about as ridiculous as saying that the ministers of small churches in the Washington suburbs would be effective espionage agents...
...State Department publishes its own confidential beginners' guide. Sample information: a tiny coffee cup is a "demi-tasse"; a Queen, in informal conversation, may be called "ma'am," but never "madam"; only severants call a duke "your grace," to a diplomat a duke is just "Duke...
Through Washington and world politics last week, Dean Acheson gracefully picked his way, reminding a British journalist of a Velasquez grandee-tall and thin, quietly and elegantly garbed, in appearance, at least, the perfect diplomat. Despite seven years of Government service, many more years as an attorney with one of the nation's great law firms, he was still something of an enigma, even to his friends. Who was Dean Gooderham Acheson...
...other news of Diplomat Thorp, see THE HEMISPHERE...
Clicking Busily. In the dismal, 14-story Oikwan (Love-thy-Fellowman) Hotel, white-jacketed room boys scurried about posting newer and bigger rates. Tenants were handed their revised bills once, and sometimes twice, each day. On the tenth floor of the Oikwan were the U.S. diplomats, while on the sixth were the Russians. In between were representatives of the French, British, Dutch and Burmese governments. Said one diplomat over an Oikwan Martini: "This is where the third world war is starting...