Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present position as Ambassador to West Germany, he is probably the most knowledgeable negotiator the United States could have at the coming Foreign Ministers' meeting. Though he has not been in government service all his life, he is more nearly a career diplomat than any of his potential rivals. Installing a Secretary of State who has devoted much of his life to professional government service is a valuable precedent. Bruce served in the Foreign Service for two years during the Twenties; his major contributions have been in the Office of Strategic Services during the war and in Marshall Plan Administration...
Considering Dr. Conant's intellectual record, as chemist, as Harvard President, as advisor to the Manhattan Project, and finally as diplomat, it is perhaps surprising that his recommendations should be more practical than those of a professional man of affairs such as Admiral Rickover. Unfortunately, the builder of the atomic submarine seems to have thought more about the demands which reality places upon America than about the equipment with which we must meet this crisis. He sees very clearly that we are at the brink of disaster, that the Sputnik was not merely a fluke, and that unless a revolution...
During his 20 years as a Vatican diplomat in Bulgaria and in Greece and Turkey, John is said to have grown optimistic about the possibilities of closer relations with the Eastern church...
Secret Life. The Privilege Was Mine, written by a Russian princess who fled after the Revolution in 1920 (at the age of 13) and returned 37 years later as the wife of a Belgian diplomat, is filled with insights that ring true and glitters with revealing conversations with all sorts of citizens from peasants to party leaders. It also offers evidence that nationalism knows no distinction between political systems. Though an antiCommunist, the princess is firmly on the side of the Kremlin when she feels Russia's historic interests are involved. In writing of the bloody suppression...
...foreigners in Russia fear that microphones will be hidden in their bedrooms. The fiancee of a diplomat became so worried about this invasion of privacy that she consulted a psychiatrist. "I'd suggest," said the practical doctor, "that when you make love, you simply do so quietly...