Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...history have struck a happier balance with their age or won richer rewards in return than Flemish Artist Peter Paul Rubens, master of Europe's baroque style at its 17th century peak. A staunch Roman Catholic, unquestioning Royalist, shrewd businessman, Rubens was both a spectacularly successful diplomat, the trusted adviser of kings, and the most sought-after painter of his day, whose masterpieces today are treasured by every major museum of Europe. In an exhibition of his oil sketches and drawings, collected by Harvard's Fogg Museum and Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library and on display...
Moreover, Diplomat Ward was guilty of constant breaches of the rigidly conventional behavior that Foreign Service officers demand of one another. Whenever he and his Finnish wife moved from post to post, a small menagerie went with them. In 1934, when Moscow's Savoy Hotel refused to admit a bearded Korean hen named Skippy, which the Wards had brought with them from China, Angus promptly rented for Skippy a country house complete with personal maid. In off-duty hours Ward affected loud plaid jackets, burgundy shirts, and tartan tam-o'-shanters or astrakhan fur caps. This sort...
Final Chapter. Eccentric as he sometimes appeared, Ward was a cool, competent diplomat. Scholarly and hardworking, he mastered several Chinese and Mongolian dialects in addition to the Russian taught him by his Russian-born mother. Above all, in a series of posts in or on the borders of the Soviet world-Mukden, Tientsin, Moscow, Vladivostok, Teheran-he gathered a specialist's knowledge of two ominously interrelated subjects: China and Communism...
Last week, anxious to keep his own position maneuverable, wily President Soekarno intervened four times in an effort to include a Communist or Communist-approved minister in the Cabinet. ("The President," said one diplomat, "is Indonesia's answer to the universal joint.") Each time, he ran into a solid wall of opposition from the Moslem parties. Finally he gave in, approved the Cabinet without change and without Communists. "In the past we've been on one bank of a river characterized by poverty, corruption and political instability," he told the new Cabinet. "Now we have changed our government...
...16th century wall and Palestine's 20th century travail divide Jerusalem between Old City and New, and sentries-Jordan's Arabs, Israel's Jews-stand an uneasy guard. "If one of those soldiers throws a tin can at another across the wall," says a Western diplomat at the bar of the National Hotel, "it could touch off a holocaust." A travel agent sips his drink, then breaks in: "There has been no change. There has never been peace in Jerusalem...