Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Softspoken, grey-haired Zorin has the diplomatic manner, often makes cracks about uncultured and unimportant comrades, deftly turns difficult conversation into innocuous channels when it suits him. Said a German diplomat who met him last week: "If you didn't know differently, you would think he was from Denmark or Sweden, or perhaps Canada. His face is animated and kind." In short, Zorin is one of the few Russian diplomats who is readily distinguishable from his bodyguard. But behind the kind, animated exterior of Valerian Zorin lies one of the deadliest minds in diplomacy...
...conference at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, got a phone call from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Summoned to Washington, he reported, to confer with Dulles and President Eisenhower, Graham canceled a sermon ("Our Christian Heritage"), hopped a plane that evening. Next day, although he missed seeing Ike, Religious Diplomat Graham emerged from an hour's chat with Dulles in the Secretary's Georgetown home. He had got a solid briefing on India, told waiting newsmen that Foster Dulles has repeatedly demonstrated himself to be "a man of peace...
...Intelligence seems to accept the Japanese statement that he was executed in 1944. Meissner suggests that the death sentence against Sorge was never carried out. He cites these items: a French diplomat claims to have seen him since; his execution, if it took place, occurred without a witness from the condemned man's own country, although such a witness is required by Japanese law; nor were his remains made available to friends or relatives. The German ambassador in Tokyo at war's end, Heinrich Stahmer, believed that Sorge survived to direct the Far Eastern Department...
...Appointed, as Ambassador to Thailand, Career Diplomat Max Waldo Bishop, 47, who succeeds the late John E. Peurifoy...
Tillich hardly looks like a theologian. A stocky man with long steel-gray hair, clear-rimmed eye-glasses, and square features, he has an emphatically this-worldly air. He might be a lawyer, a businessman, or, with his soft but colorful accent, a German diplomat...