Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diplomat Kennan had talked to reporters in Berlin three weeks before and had made a statement: the life of a U.S. diplomat in Soviet Russia is little better than existence was in Nazi Germany, where he had been briefly interned after Pearl Harbor. This line of talk, said a note from Moscow to the State Department, was "a rude violation of generally recognized norms of international...
...Ambassadors. Stopping in Berlin, he made his statement to the press about his life in Moscow. It was even impossible, said Kennan. to speak to Russians in the street: they had orders not to have anything to do with Americans. Even personal servants were hostile. A U.S. diplomat in Russia lived like a prisoner...
...prominent diplomatic visitor once described meeting him at a Moscow dinner: "My most vivid memory is the sight of Malenkov. It was the most sinister thing in the Soviet Union. I was struck by his repulsive appearance, bulbous, flabby and sallow . . . He was apparently oblivious of what was going on around him at the table. When toasts were made, he would lift his glass automatically, then relapse into sneering silence." Said another diplomat: "I would hate to be at the mercy of that...
...relations might possibly be taking a turn for the better. Last fortnight Kennan told reporters in Berlin that his stay in Moscow has been one of "icy cold" isolation, little different from the treatment he got in Nazi Germany back in 1941 when he was interned as an enemy diplomat. The U.S. Ambassador, snarled Pravda in reply last week, was an "ecstatic liar ... an enemy of the peace and [hence] of the Soviet Union...
...previous offer (to buy Iranian oil now in storage tanks, price to be fixed later, plus a $10 million bonus thrown in by the U.S.). The U.S., whose policy is to let the British have their way in Iran, let them have their way. A Western diplomat in Teheran wryly remarked that bargaining with Mossadegh reminded him of a Persian rug dealer who keeps upping his price each time he opens his mouth. The analogy might be apt, but unless Washington and London make some real effort to get Mossy's carpet while it is still for sale...