Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western diplomat declared last week in Washington that it was of the utmost importance for observers of the current international situation to study two danger spots in the world--Korea and Germany--side by side. Korea is on the eastern rim of the Communist land mass; Germany on the western. It is inconceivable, he said, that events in the two places are unrelated...
...ambassador in Caracas, President Truman last week nominated Fletcher Warren, 55, onetime ambassador to Nicaragua and Paraguay, who has served for the past year as director of the State Department's Office of South American Affairs. Like his predecessor, the veteran Norman Armour, Warren is a career diplomat and an old Latin America hand. He should be at home among the 30,000 Texans now living and working in oil-minded Venezuela. Six feet seven inches tall, he was born in Wolfe City, Texas, worked his way through the state university at Austin, and married a Texas girl, Wilhelmina...
...than any of the allies. Because Britain recognizes Communist China, while the U.S. recognizes the Nationalists, neither regime was invited; under a compromise painstakingly worked out by John Foster Dulles, Japan will be left free to pick which of the China governments it will deal with. Last week, after Diplomat Dulles made a secret visit to Capitol Hill, the news leaked out: Japan will sign a separate peace with the Nationalists right after San Francisco. But the Nationalists' resentment at their exclusion from the treaty meeting remains strong. The Nationalist case...
Should the well-behaved diplomat belch after a good meal? Should he blow his nose? Such questions, Tokyo decided, might well agitate the 53 ladies & gentlemen of Japan who arrived in San Francisco last week. Result: the Japanese Foreign Office issued a special instruction booklet designed to keep delegates Emily Posted during their stay in the U.S. The booklet warned against...
...seventh Duke of Wellington is an unstuffy former diplomat and minor architect, onetime Surveyor of the King's Works of Art (1936-43) and a man who likes to keep the records straight about his most famous ancestor. As a close student of his tough, gunpowdery great-grandfather, he came to doubt that the first Duke ever uttered the sonorous bit of snobbery so dear to generations of British orators: "The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." So last month he did what any Englishman would do under the circumstances: he wrote a letter...