Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patient and persuasive, Abba Eban is rated highly by the U.S. and foreign diplomats who work with him. Sympathizers to Israel consider him one of the five ablest diplomats in Washington; opponents call him a nuisance or a menace, but none dispute his cleverness. "Eban is super-able," said one diplomat, a neutral. "He fences a beautiful duel with words...
...joined the British army, rising from private to major in seven years. In 1946, he began working full time for the emerging Jewish state, first as an information officer in London, then as a.delegate to the U.N. In May 1950, he was appointed Ambassador to the U.S., the youngest diplomat to hold such a rank in Washington...
...only kind of voting that remains to the East Germans-what one British diplomat calls voting with their feet-they have chosen to flee the country at a rate which for the past three months has averaged a startling 1,000 refugees a day. And of those who are now leaving East Germany, more than half are any nation's most valuable treasure, young men and women under...
...hope the Russians would accept it, the plan was not mere propaganda. It was an honest offer honestly made-honest because each Western power was prepared to live with it if it were accepted, and convinced that Russia could live with it, too. Said one top German diplomat: "Here is something big and historically important. If the Russians reject this, they in effect abandon the pretense that European security is of any importance to them...
...Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. But when nationalist sentiment rallied around Ben Youssef and forced Premier Edgar Faure into making bargains with Moslem nationalists, wily old El Glaoui had different insight. "Must I become your government's enemy to be deemed worthy of negotiating with?" he asked a French diplomat. Last week, glimpsing the state of things to come, El Glaoui decided that the advantage lay in enmity...