Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Margaret Thompson Biddle, 59, Montana-born mining heiress, ex-wife of wealthy Soldier-Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., grande dame of American society in Paris since World War II, sometime authoress (Women' of England) and Paris newshen (Realties, farflung columnist for Woman's Home Companion); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Paris...
...appointment of Political Diplomat Seaton (see box) to the politically hot Interior post was as shrewd as it was surprising. Ever since 1953, some Democratic politicians have been shouting against the "giveaway" policies of the Eisenhower Administration's Department of the Interior, chiefly because the department has emphasized private and local, rather than federal development of natural resources. After Secretary Douglas McKay resigned in mid-April to run against Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse, it was clear that some U.S. Senate Democrats, e.g., Oregon's Richard Neuberger, would fight confirmation of McKay's Under Secretary...
...that it would sometimes seem that the intellectual is America's hopeless Displaced Person. He is not only supposed to be the man that Senator McCarthy is after; he is also supposed to be the man that the rest of the nation persistently chooses to ignore or scorn. Diplomat George Kennan has said: "I can think of few countries in the world where the artist, the writer, the composer or the thinker is held in such general low esteem as he is here in our country...
Ibrahim Izzat, a 29-year-old magazine writer, was arguing about Israel at a London party last April when an Israeli diplomat walked up and asked: "What do you know about it? You've never been there...
Russia is an Asiatic country, and I myself am an Asiatic, Joseph Stalin once told a Japanese diplomat. "Our country is both European and Asiatic. The largest part of our territory lies on the Asian continent." said roly-poly First Party Secretary Khrushchev five months ago in India. Last week Stalin's heirs were showing increasing determination to make Asians out of millions of other Russians...