Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fold. In Washington, Secretary of State Dulles said he had no reason to think that Tito had changed his policy, which was "that the now satellite countries should have a greater measure of independence." To get at the truth of Tito's position, virtually every Western and Communist diplomat in Belgrade (including U.S. Ambassador James W. Riddleberger, back in Belgrade from vacation) was lined up for official interviews with the Yugoslav President. Tito, for the moment at least, was letting them twiddle their thumbs and-as he perhaps was doing too-wonder just what it is all about...
Britain's businessmen in recent years have become so used to hearing their efforts excoriated by local politicians and extolled by visiting diplomats that they seldom stop to listen to either. Last week they pricked up their ears when a departing diplomat reversed the process. A successful U.S. businessman for 40 years (metal factory, condensed milk, the Ask Mr. Foster travel agency), grey-haired Francis E. Rogers of New York City went to Britain in 1951 with an American aid mission to spend five years observing British factories. On the eve of his departure for home...
...Sometimes two shoes in a pair were made each on a different last. In this country, the consumer is a completely forgotten man. Let him get up on his hind legs and say: Trices are too high. Styling is ridiculous, and I won't buy it.' " In Diplomat Rogers' mind, Britain's consumers, industrial managers and trade unions alike are all to blame for a situation that spoils the economy because of a misplaced sense of charity, which makes Britons feel that competition just "isn't cricket...
...October." At a Socialist rally in Caterham, the Labor Party's foreign-affairs spokesman, Alfred Robens, cried that if peaceful negotiations with Nasser failed, Anthony Eden "has no alternative but to resign." One lover of historical irony, harking back to Ethiopian War days of Eden the boy-wonder diplomat, announced that Eden was about to end his career as he began it, talking about sanctions that he can't deliver...
...Anthony has a temper grown sharper with the years, and Nasser's act touched off in him a flare of personal contempt for the Egyptian-not the contempt of a loftily bred Yorkshire gentleman for an upstart "wog," but the contempt of an order-loving, word-keeping diplomat for a disorderly, dishonorable dictator...