Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago, while he was still ostensibly editor of Pravda, hulking Dmitry Shepilov earned himself an overnight reputation as a diplomat by setting up Egypt's arms deal with the Communists. Accordingly, when Shepilov, now Soviet Foreign Minister, set out three weeks ago to revisit the scene of his original triumph, European chancelleries nervously braced themselves for further Soviet coups...
...Case for Diplomacy. "It's not that Thailand is turning pro-Communist," said a ranking Western diplomat. "It's that there is a feeling abroad that Thailand should be free to deal with all sides to her own best advantage." It was a situation that called for skilled U.S. diplomacy...
...perhaps the ablest U.S. staff in Southeast Asia. The embassy is still staffed by men who believe that with proper understanding Thailand's drift can be controlled. But they have been strongly overruled by new U.S. Ambassador Max Waldo Bishop, 47, a truculent, table-pounding career diplomat, who in seven brief months has alienated many responsible Thais, demoralized his own staff and created ill will at SEATO council meetings...
...equipment and their latest developments." This week Nate Twining attended the vaunted Soviet Aviation Day flyover-and saw precious little in the way of startling "late developments." But after the flyover he went to a banquet given by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, and met the test-riotously put-as a diplomat and politician...
...Russia's new Foreign Minister left Cairo, he shook hands with Egyptian Foreign Minister Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi, asked: "How long does it take to become a good diplomat?" Replied Fawzi: "I don't think you need any lessons...