Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Veteran U.S. Diplomat John Carter Vincent has long been No. 2 on Senator Joe McCarthy's list of accused Communists in the State Department. Last summer ex-Communist Louis Budenz echoed McCarthy's accusation...
Home on leave from his post as U.S. consul and diplomatic agent at Tangier, the gaunt, silver-haired diplomat testified publicly last week in his own defense. Budenz, he told Senator McCarran's Internal Security subcommittee, was a liar; and we "cannot defend democracy with perfidy or defeat Communism with lies." Four days of questioning revealed little to support Budenz' charge...
...some day the oak may no longer be there. Then the model diplomat, capable and correct, must prove how well the British Foreign Office tradition of expertism and caution can adjust to the incautious and wild demands of the second half of the soth century. The answer must wait until Anthony Eden steps out of the oak's shadow...
German truculence revived old French fears. "It is time to teach the Germans that they cannot have everything," snapped one French diplomat. In the heat of nationalism, both nations seemed to forget that the Schuman and Pleven Plans, which both are pledged to join, were designed to make such squabbles old-fashioned and unnecessary...
...along with Canada's developing national consciousness, the feeling grew that sooner or later, precedent would have to be broken. Last week it was. On Ottawa's recommendation, an announcement from Buckingham Palace designated Toronto-born Vincent Massey, 64, scholar and diplomat, as Canada's next Governor General...