Word: diplomatic
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Scholar & Diplomat. Born in Japan of Canadian missionary parents, Norman studied at universities in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, and became in his early 30s one of the world's ranking scholars on Japanese history and culture. He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1939, and the following year was assigned to the Canadian legation in Tokyo. The Japanese interned him at the time of Pearl Harbor, repatriated him the following year; he spent the rest of the war years at an Ottawa desk...
Last week a new Argentine ambassador, Carlos Toranzo Montero, was settling down in Caracas. A soldier-diplomat, Toranzo was an army leader of the 1955 anti-Perón revolt, spent two years and seven months in a Perón jail for refusing to wear a black mourning band after Evita Perón's death. Shortly after the dictator's downfall, he was appointed as Argentine ambassador to Nicaragua at a time when Strongman Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza had publicly proclaimed that Perón would be welcome in Managua. Toranzo arranged a private talk between Tacho...
...children's book by Mrs. Margaret C. Hubbard, house mother of Holmes Hall, will be published Monday. The book, Boss Chombale, is based on Mrs. Hubbard's nine years of personal experience in Africa as a U.S. diplomat, a journalist, and a captor of wild animals, and is intended for children from...
...have watched the development of his career since then with admiration for his qualities as a scholar and a diplomat, and I know this view is shared by other faculty members who knew him and his work," Fairbank said...
...Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd-gathered for a roast-beef dinner in the private dining room of Macmillan's suite. Despite white dinner jackets, it was a friendly and informal meeting. Before ranging off into the problems of 1957, Ike and Mac exchanged reminiscences of the wartime days when Diplomat Macmillan served as British Minister Resident at General Eisenhower's Algiers headquarters...