Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first junta, four in top jobs survived when Nasser finally dissolved it and became constitutional President this summer. A friend once asked the strongman why he was so reluctant to delegate authority. "Show me ten men I can trust," he replied, "and I will delegate authority." Recently a visiting diplomat, who had been doing a lot of business with him, remarked: "Sometimes I think I hardly know you, despite all our talks." Nasser's answer was candid: "Nobody does. I'm too suspicious...
Died. Arthur Bliss Lane, 62, career diplomat (31 years), postwar (1945-47) U.S. Ambassador to Poland, who resigned, wrote / Saw Poland Betrayed after the present Communist regime gained power in the election of January 1947; of acute hepatitis; in Manhattan...
...work to bring him down, by whatever method it could. The alternative for Britain was a disastrous loss of international prestige. On second thoughts, some British editorialists (though not all: see cartoon) were grateful to Dulles for having postponed a hasty solution by force. In the London Times, veteran Diplomat Anthony Eden got a lesson in diplomacy from one of his former diplomats, Sir Ralph Stevenson (until last year British Ambassador to Egypt). "Action which would result in a legacy of ill will would defeat our object," wrote Stevenson. "And in politics it is never wise to leave the opposition...
...biggest (1,200 employees) and most prosperous of Paris' 820-member couturiers' protective association, Designer Dior, 62, is a shy, balding Norman with a birdlike face and trencherman's paunch. Son of a wealthy chemical manufacturer, he started out to be a diplomat, instead opened a picture gallery, where he helped launch the career of Salvador Dali. Switching to fashion during the Depression, Dior first made his mark as a hat designer. After World War II service as an enlisted man, he was one of Lucien Lelong's top designers when Textile Tycoon Marcel Boussac decided...
...desire of the people of Algeria for freedom," and a kind word for "safeguarding legitimate economic interests" in the Middle East, the communiqué carried little but vague platitudes of a pronounced Nehrunian cast. "Points on which there could be no agreement were just left out," explained one Indian diplomat. Tito, in halting English, bade his guests goodbye. "Come soon back," he said...