Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What about East-West trade, if, as the President hoped, a new dawn starts to thaw out the cold war? "Trade is the greatest weapon in the hands of the diplomat," but a rigid policy can leave the diplomat emptyhanded. Instead of saying, "We won't trade," the U.S. has to say, "When does trade in what things benefit us most and our friends...
Died. Joseph Flack, 60. U.S. Ambassador to Poland (since 1950) and longtime (39 years) career diplomat; aboard the liner United States, while on his way home from Warsaw for reassignment...
...Austria, Molotov hastily insisted, until a German peace treaty was signed. But a few months ago Russia abruptly changed its tune, suggested that Raab come to Moscow to talk things over. Shining Sun. It was snowing on the Moscow airport. Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov remarked to a Western diplomat that he had hoped for better weather to greet the Austrians. Said the diplomat: "In these cases, Mr. Minister, the weather that matters is the weather you find when you leave." Interjected Deputy Prime Minister Anastas Mikoyan: "You can be sure the sun will be shining when they leave...
...weaken Cupic's ardor. But what time and distance failed to do, party discipline at last accomplished. In 1951 the Yugoslav party (always more puritanical than its Russian counterpart) ordered both Ljubinka and Cupic to clean up their love lives. Cupic, by then an up-and-coming diplomat, married another woman and started raising a family. Ljubinka, still unmarried and still suffering from her old ailment, doggedly went on with her work, showing more and more signs of strain. Two weeks ago, for the first time in nearly four years, Ljubinka and Cupic met again, at a friend...
Born to Rule. Thirty years an M.P., twelve a Cabinet minister, he is Britain's best-informed diplomat, its most seasoned negotiator. Yet his career has been a narrow one that lacks the human breadth of a Churchill's, a Truman's, or an Eisenhower's. Eden has seldom strayed beyond the polished confines of Westminster and Whitehall, and his public sense does not derive from an easy personal acquaintance with the common man. Far more, it is an inbred instinct, the product of Eden's membership in that unique class of Englishmen...