Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mark of Bob Murphy's professionalism that he left with Salam singing his praises. Such was Murphy's total performance that another U.S. career diplomat in the Middle East was moved to remark: "Bob proves the ultimate value of professionalism in diplomacy-proves the case for a Foreign Service career. We can't do without men like...
...kept him out of World War I military service-so he applied for a civilian war job and wound up as a clerk in the U.S. legation in neutral, window-on-the-world Bern, Switzerland. Murphy's two-year record was summed up by a colleague, a young diplomat named Allen Welsh Dulles: "Work, work, work...
...Munich, where he made the sort of mistake that is part of the training of a professional. The U.S. was interested in the doings of rising young Rabble Rouser Adolf Hitler. Murphy reported that Hitler was simply too loony to be dangerous. Among the diplomatic observers in Munich who agreed with Murphy was Apostolic Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli. Years later, after the liberation of Rome. Diplomat Robert Murphy saw Pacelli again, grinned: "Do you remember the reports which we agreed to send about Hitler?" Replied Eugenio Pacelli. by this time Pope Pius XII: "Now Robert, wait a minute...
After 16 years spent learning his trade in routine jobs, Diplomat Murphy's breakthrough came in 1936. with the arrival in Paris of Ambassador William Bullitt, a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt's and a man with a sharp eye for young talent. "When I got to Paris." recalls Bullitt, "Murphy was No. 3 consul. He seemed so much abler than the No. 2 consul and the No. 1 consul that I had him made consul general.'' By 1939 Murphy was a full-blown counselor at the Paris embassy. "This," says Bullitt, "was going up very...
...process began when Dwight Eisenhower, going beyond mere denunciation of "indirect aggression," advanced positive economic and political proposals. Scarcely had Ike finished speaking, when the Soviet Union gingerly followed the U.S. lead. Explained one U.S. diplomat: "The Soviets are washed up in the Security Council. They know they've got to woo the General Assembly to get anywhere in the U.N., and they have wised up to the fact that sweet reasonableness may get them farther...