Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particular for its past support of Israel. Against them, Bakdash and the Socialists could not hope to win much in Parliament, but that they had done so well was a shock and a danger sign to the West. "The Syrian results," understated one U.S. diplomat, "were definitely detrimental to our interests." Among those who were delighted were the long-unsettled Arab refugees from Palestine. "They're not in love with Communism," explained one Arab, "but they're at war with the West...
Spare, soft-spoken Dr. Martino, 53, is by training not a diplomat or politician but an educator and a distinguished man of medicine. As rector of the University of Messina since 1943, he has made the university one of Italy's best. As a medical man specializing in the nervous system, he has done research and lectured in Berlin, Paris, London and South America, authored 150 publications. The son of a distinguished Sicilian (his father was mayor of Messina for 30 years) and married to a descendant of an old Sicilian noble family, Martino is not the fiery...
...surrender. Under the U.S. occupation, he was a man of tough but resilient rubber: since sovereignty, he has been a man of iron. Critics call him malicious, contemptuous, autocratic. Even his admirers sometimes agree-adding, however, that he can be witty, urbane and charming. Recently, a top U.S. diplomat was asked: "Whom do you regard as the five most influential men in Japan?" The answer: "Yoshida, Yoshida, Yoshida, Yoshida and Yoshida...
...make his diplomacy stick, Bishop Tu whipped together a tiny army of fervent Roman Catholics, armed with pikes and smuggled rifles. At its head he put Father Quynh, a tough, angular soldier-priest. Father Quynh was no diplomat. "A Catholic in this country betrays his faith if he is not a soldier," he used to say. "To compromise with Communism is treachery. You must fight-it's the only Christian solution...
...group or junta. In comparison to Stalin ("Georgian suspicions, a mountaineer's narrow hatreds . . . the midnight habits of a proscribed revolutionary, the wolflike morals of a hunted bank robber") Salisbury found the junta composed of an outwardly pleasant bunch of men who thus, as a Western diplomat said, "are more dangerous than Stalin...