Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very fact that what is called "McCarthyism" is a rather elusive blur gives it a capacity to suffuse a whole national policy. As one U.S. diplomat describes it: "It is a kind of smog, discoloring all our purposes. In the thousand little things that go to make up diplomatic success or failure, it just suffices to keep the U.S. from getting the benefit of the doubt in the minds of so many. And serious decisions that often in history look so solid really amount to just that-winning the benefit of the doubt...
...fact which rarely occurs to us and almost certainly has never occurred to Senator McCarthy was pointed out to me by a veteran U.S. career diplomat, a man of wisdom and patience, who said...
...parliamentary: opposed only by three delegations (which voted for U.S.-backed Prince Wan Waithayakon of Thailand), the Assembly elected as its president The Netherlands' Dr. Eelco Van Kleffens, 59, a meticulous and skillful diplomat who knows law, economics and four languages. Van Kleffens, for seven years The Netherlands' Foreign Minister, has been prominent in the U.N. since its birth...
...lead its fight to return to power, and he thus became its candidate for Prime Minister. The attempt failed by a nose in last spring's national elections, and left the party sharply divided between pro-and anti-Evatt factions. Just before election came the defection of Soviet Diplomat Vladimir Petrov and his wife (TIME, April...
With the Dewey decision, the Democratic side of New York's gubernatorial picture became much clearer. The Democratic nomination lay between Representative Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. and New-Fair Deal Diplomat W. Averell Harriman. The choice was up to Tammany Chief Carmine De Sapio, who. with his fellow Democratic metropolitan county leaders, controls a deciding bloc of delegate votes in the nominating convention next week...