Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into $30 million to $40 million; No. 4 was known as "the peseta stealer." No. 5, Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado (1925-33), coupled graft with terror, rode in a $30,000 armored car, had some of his victims fed to the sharks. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dispatched suave Diplomat Sumner Welles to smooth the way for the unseating of the "President of a thousand murders." Welles began a subtle campaign against Machado inside the army itself, and one afternoon Battalion No. 1 of the Cabana Fortress trained its guns on the yellow-domed palace, whereupon Machado cried: "All right...
Bonsai, since March 1957 Ambassador to Bolivia, has had to deal before with a thorny Latin American situation. In 1955, as Ambassador to Colombia, he was accredited to the government of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Distinctly not one of the diplomat types who deem it a simple duty to stay close to the boss, Spanish-fluent Philip Bonsai moved with ease among intellectuals and politicos in Colombia. Among them was Alberto Lleras Camargo, a leading Rojas oppositionist. Rojas put pressure on the State Department and the U.S. eventually withdrew Bonsai, but the urbane diplomat became a hero among Latin Americans...
...Cuba Bonsai will represent the U.S. before a government making an erratic return to democracy and prone to blame Washington for all its troubles. But he has a unique spiritual link with an earlier rebel Cuba through his late father, Journalist-Diplomat Stephen Bonsai, who in 1897 wrote The Real Condition of Cuba, an eloquent report on the tyranny that won him the gratitude of the rebels, later a Cuban decoration...
...under trusteeship since World War I. Botsio's intelligence seemed detailed; he knew what roads were to be seized and at what hour, what communications lines would be cut, just who in the Togoland government would be arrested. It was all very convincing, even though the French diplomat knew that Ghana itself is working to annex French Togoland as it has already annexed British Togoland. The French charge rattled off a message to Paris that there was no time to be lost...
...Vatican attitude, as one diplomat put it, "could theoretically lead to a better atmosphere between the church and Communism. The first move, though, must come from the Communists." The church's price is likely to be high, involving vastly increased religious and educational freedom in Communist countries...