Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hope & Despair. For 300 years, the great dialogue in France has been between Faith and Reason, between Pascal, Bossuet and Chateaubriand on one hand, Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau on the other. That dialogue animated the 27-year correspondence between Poet-Diplomat Paul Claudel, an unswerving Catholic who never doubted God, and André Gide. the backslid Protestant who never doubted the individual-a controversy generally conducted in scrupulously courteous and self-Centered letters, but frequently so agitated that one or the other broke off the correspondence. They ended by not speaking to each other...
...greeted by a band of grim-faced hecklers, mostly Baltic refugees. A postal employee was spotted at the depot carrying a shotgun and a .45 revolver. Because he refused to be disarmed briefly (he was guarding mail), he was sternly guarded by two cops while Molotov walked through. The diplomat was soon bustling through Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, where school kids trailed him and one little girl piped: "Isn't he cute...
...Drive,, he suddenly left his car to walk for a while, then just as suddenly crossed the drive in the midst of rush-hour traffic. Automobiles were tied up for miles as his motorcade and police escort jockeyed through an illegal U-turn to keep up with the wandering diplomat...
...trip was not without some unpleasantness. In Omaha an angry crowd of Baltic refugees from Soviet tyranny picketed Molotov's train, and the Russian delegation stayed discreetly aboard. But in Cheyenne, Wyo. the Soviet diplomat hit the high spot of his tour when a reporter from the Denver Post presented him with a ten-gallon hat. The reporter had three Stetsons of different sizes, just to be sure the fit was right. Molotov first tried on a size 7⅛, which was too snug. The newsman offered him a 7½. That was just right. "Thank you. Thank...
...tour completed, the visitor was asked by reporters what he had liked best. "The Americans." said Diplomat Molotov. Some reporters were incredulous. "That's what he says," said Interpreter Troyanovsky with a big smile...