Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missionary, Xavier was more like a streetcorner preacher than the polished diplomat some historians make him out to be. In Bologna, Italy he had attracted attention "by standing on a vacant bench, waving his big hat, and shouting to loungers and marketing folk to come and listen to the Word of God." In "golden, heartless Goa," the citadel of Portugal's Asiatic colonies, he got crowds for his instructions by walking up & down the streets ringing a large bell. And when he found an audience, he held it. Writes Biographer Brodrick: "Perhaps they laughed at him to start with...
Said the headline on a two-page ad in The New Yorker last week: I AM SENDING MY SON TO GROTON WITH THE MONEY I HAVE SAVED DRIVING AUSTINS. The ad quoted a "private letter from [an] anonymous diplomat . . . who used to ornament the Diplomatic Corps," and pictured a man in riding boots, presumably the anonymous diplomat, with 1) a woman, 2) a boy (presumably the lucky Grottie) and 3) a pair of Austin cars...
Elected 1952 President at the U.N. General Assembly last week: Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson of Canada, his country's first top homegrown diplomat, and skillful advocate of Canada's growing demand to be heard in its own right...
...assignments as Supreme Commander in World War II and at NATO chief diplomat and great administrator. Both these jobs in scope, magnitude, and responsibility far surpass any job Adlai Stevenson has held. Eisenhower showed a great ability to get people of diverse nationalities and hostile viewpoints to work together effectively. As a candidate, he has used that same talent to bring an increasing degree of unity to his party. But his recent speech in Michigan clearly demonstrates that his foreign policy is as much as ever that of Senator Vandenberg, not Senator Taft. His speech in Milwaukee just as clearly...
Career: Veteran career diplomat and topflight economist; joined Foreign Office in 1928, has served since in the U.S., Scandinavia, Africa, the U.N. and as delegate to numberless international conferences as expert on economics and North American affairs; Britain's Deputy Under Secretary of State since 1948; chairman of ten-man council on British atomic policy; Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George since 1949; accompanied both Attlee and Churchill on their recent trips to Washington, where he himself has served a total of five years...