Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed about to take all the credit for standing up to the Russians, the Manchester Guardian published a list of 200 political prisoners which, the paper declared, Prime Minister Anthony Eden had handed to the Russians with a plea for their release. In Commons, Eden was the properly outraged diplomat. He had, he conceded, entered a private plea with the Russians to release religious and political prisoners in the satellite countries, but he had not "handed in this list, or any other list." He added: "I want to get results," and talked as if he still hoped...
...most "profound," and perhaps the most uninteresting, of the assembly is a British diplomat named Conway, played by Lew Ayres. A dedicated type, Conway has risked his life to pry another young Englishman, an aging dance team, and a female missionary of uncertain age and denomination loose from a Chinese Communist prison. He and his charges almost get killed, though, when their plane crashes in the wilds of Tibet. And then they are rescued by a group of mystical monks--also of uncertain denomination--who conduct them to a hidden valley populated by deliriously happy and uniformly muscular peasants...
...Painter Diplomat...
...Gaza border camps (and not technically in the Egyptian army), struck hardest in the coastal plain, always at night. No citizen of the tiny republic was safe from the "Nights of Horror," as Cairo's newspaper Al Akh-bar jubilantly headlined the raids, and never was a U.S. diplomat's remark more terrifyingly apt: "Every Israeli sleeps within 20 miles of an Arab knife...
Rubens once remarked: "My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast or various, has ever surpassed my courage." Of himself as a diplomat: "I assure you that in public affairs I am the most dispassionate man in the world, except where my property and person are concerned ... I regard the whole world as my country, and I believe that I should be very welcome everywhere." Even so sharp-eyed an English observer as Charles I's Ambassador, the Earl of Carlisle, wrote home from the Continent: "He made mee believe that nothing but good intentions and sincerity have...