Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fresh from the Mint. Dulles resisted any temptation to preen. "There he sat," said one British diplomat, "listening to men put on record what he and everyone else who knows anything about the Soviets have known since 1920. But he never gave the slightest indication of boredom. He looked as though every word he heard had been freshly minted...
...violent attack on the U.S." Said Rome's independent-center Momenta-Sera: "Everything shows Moscow's intention is to increase international tension in order to get the maximum from a top-level meeting convoked in haste." Another key point, put to the United Press by a Western diplomat in Korea: "There is much feeling that Russia's move will actually strengthen the U.S.'s hand in Asia, because it shows previously doubtful Asians that Russia has a deep respect for U.S. striking power...
...Curia. Currently he represents Vatican investments on the boards of the Banco di Roma, and pharmaceutical, shipping and piping companies. In 1946 the Central American Republic of Costa Rica appointed him envoy to the Vatican State, upgraded him to ambassador ten years later. Another papal relative is also a diplomat at the Vatican: Count Stanislao Pecci, grandnephew of Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta...
...asked a veteran diplomat if the Soviet attitude was, on a certain subject, "genuine" and "sincere." He answered dryly: "The most menacing thing about this country is that its leaders are the most sincere liars in history. When uttering the basest lies, they are at their most sincere...
...area were comfortably settled on the veranda of the picturesque Mazoe Hotel in suburban Mazoe sipping their customary sundowners (brandy and soda). Suddenly glasses were put down and eyebrows raised as their lily-white privacy was invaded by plump, brown-skinned Jagannath Rao, the press attache of the Indian diplomatic mission, who had brought his wife, two children and a friend into the lounge for a cup of tea. Before they could be served, the hotel manager bustled up, asked them to leave. Rao protested that he was a foreign diplomat, but the manager snapped: "I don't want...