Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your Nov. 19 article on Sir Anthony Eden tries to demerit the greatest statesman and diplomat in the world. History will show who was great and who was so inept and so wanting. The latter will not be Sir Anthony...
...stripped them of their fur. Some of these creatures are really victims of mange or eczema, but others are more or less mixed descendants of the Xoloizcuintle,* the hairless, edible dog of the Aztecs. "Xolos" have been neglected until recently, but last week Norman P. Wright, a onetime British diplomat living in Mexico, was well on the way to establishing them as a rare, high-fashion breed...
...Fellows. He was soon called on by another family friend, Henry Stimson, to collaborate on Stimson's On Active Duty in Peace and War, the memoirs of his lifetime in government service. Bundy, son of Stimson's Assistant Secretary of State during the early '30's, saw the ailing diplomat every day for three or four hours over a period of eighteen months, living in his Long Island home and communiting to Cambridge for the Fellow's weekly dinners. During this period, Bundy became what associates describe as "unbearably Republican" before the other young scholars in the Society. He worked...
Another elegible diplomat trained under the last Democratic Administration is George Kennan, former head of the State Department's policy, planning staff and architect of the containment policy, who could bring his highly professional outlook to the top post in the State Department. Or, by way of contrast, Chester Bowles, once Governor of Connecticut and Ambassador to India, is considered a possible Secretary of State who would be an active salesman for American democracy, particularly in Asia...
...Bonn a diplomat recalled an old Polish proverb: "The Poles and the Hungarians are brothers in blood and in drink." In London a Foreign Office expert recalled a point of history. "The Poles and the Hungarians are the rebels of Eastern Europe; they were the only ones to rise up against the Austrians...