Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western world are deeply indebted to you for your dramatic account [May 20] of Cardinal Wyszynski. It tells beautifully, in vivid realism, the story of a noble primate who is an astute statesman and diplomat as well as a great religious leader. I speak as a Protestant, in deep sympathy with the cardinal's patriotic service to his country and to all mankind as well...
...Dear Mr. Jones" instead of "Dear Jim" in answering letters from Negroes. In 1951 he approved of a national convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Atlanta, furnished a police honor escort from and to the airport for a visiting Negro dignitary, Diplomat Ralph Bunche. Last week, nevertheless, Bill Hartsfield, 67, won his sixth term as mayor, narrowly beating out a rival for the Democratic nomination in Atlanta's biggest mayoralty vote (one-third Negro). In Georgia the Democratic primary victory means election...
...nation's youth when Bishop Wyszynski was appointed archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw, and hence Primate of Poland to succeed the late Cardinal Hlond. In his first sermon in Warsaw's baroque Church of the Carmelite, Wyszynski declared: "I am neither a politician nor a diplomat. I am your spiritual father, your shepherd, bishop of your souls...
...Very close to unacceptable," said the French. "Vague and elusive," said the British. A U.S. diplomat commented more cautiously: "We're not happy with it; we don't think it's as good as it could be-but it's a lot better than what we started with. We think it ought to be given...
...robes, white-thatched New England Poet Robert Frost, 82, will be given honorary degrees next month by both Cambridge and Oxford-one of the few Americans to be so honored in recent times. Other Americans to receive the same double distinction: Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1868 and Poet-Diplomat James Russell Lowell in 1873. Said Poet Frost: "I guess you could say this caps my career. After all, I've written only one book-one book of about 600 pages. That's about ten pages a year over a 60-year period...