Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Welcomed home, after his dramatic four months' holdout in the U.S. legation in Budapest, U.S. Minister to Hungary Edward Thompson Wailes. Career Diplomat Tom Wailes arrived in Budapest last November in the midst of Hungary's upheaval, never got to present his credentials to the short-lived Nagy government, thenceforth refused to present them to the Communist Kadar regime because it "did not represent the people." Under persistent and rising Communist pressure to recognize the Kadar puppets, Diplomat Wailes took a final step to avoid doing so: he arranged with Washington to order him back "on consultation," then...
Truly scandalous books are rare these days, particularly books about religion. This novel is truly scandalous. It has already sold 500,000 copies in Italy (where it was banned) and in France. It is not the first among the nine novels by sometime French Diplomat Peyrefitte to enjoy a popular, scandalous and critical success (Diplomatic Conclusions drew indignant disclaimers from the French Foreign Office). Waspish Author Peyrefitte writes like a countryman of Rabelais and Voltaire, but in the U.S., where there is no comparable tradition of anticlerical literature, he is likely to shock more than to entertain...
Half a world apart, two new U.S. envoys observed similar diplomatic traditions in their first official meetings with heads of state. In London U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's John Hay Whitney, just short of 60 years after his grandfather John Hay took over the post, hied himself to Buckingham Palace, there presented his credentials to Queen Elizabeth II. Noting that officials of the U.S. embassy have been criticized for concentrating on London to the rest of the country's loss, London's Daily Telegraph hoped that "Jock" Whitney, a millionaire with a real...
...Christian had his palm read by a fortuneteller. She said: "You will find yourself without money, but you will make your living from women, and it is by them that you will succeed." His family laughed, moved to Paris and tried to train him to be a diplomat. Instead, Christian plunged into the arty life of Paris of the '20s. Velvet-collared, bowler-hatted and rich, Christian hobnobbed with advanced musicians like Poulenc and Satie, artists like Jean Cocteau, Christian Berard and Salvador Dali, opened an art gallery with his father's financial backing...
Inevitably, the purposeful young (32) diplomat came under Gestapo surveillance. Just before the Russians entered Budapest in January 1945, he went underground. When the Russians arrived, he made contact with Marshal Malinovsky, Red Army commander on the Hungarian front, who advised Stockholm, via Moscow: ". . . Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg well taken care of by army authorities...