Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loving. He married Flor de Oro (Flower of Gold), the wildcat daughter of Dominican Dictator Trujillo, and stayed married to her for five years. The Dictator, apparently impressed by this feat, made him a diplomat. Once established on the Continent, Rubi found ways of maintaining himself in expensive luxury. He had setbacks. The Germans threw him into a detention camp during World War II. Back in Paris in 1944 he was wounded in a mysterious street shooting. But Rubi was undismayed. He married French Actress Danielle Darrieux (a collector's item), and capped this by marrying Doris ("Richest Girl...
...week for a quick look at the archeological and political sights of Egypt. Technically, it was just a stopover-the Bevans were on their way to Egypt's old enemy, Israel, on a junket. In Cairo, the Bevans stayed with their old friend, Indian Ambassador Sardar Panikkar, the diplomat who did so much to persuade India's Nehru not to be beastly to the Communist government in Peking. Currently Panikkar is working with might & main to persuade Egypt to abandon the West and take up neutralism. So everybody concerned was quick to appreciate the official mischief that could...
...brooding outsider on the encouraging spectacle of a West Germany healthily revived, strongly and democratically led, dedicated by its electorate to a United Europe as well as to a new Germany. "We never question Adenauer's sincerity when he talks of Franco-German agreement," said a top French diplomat. "He is truly European . . . But we don't forget another German, Stresemann, who wanted good relations with France. Six months after he died [1929], what happened? His party and policy collapsed...
...fashionable and distinguished-looking Londoner, Mrs. John R. Bassett, found a Christmas note from her son in the mail one day last week. This commonplace occurrence made headlines all over Britain, for Mrs. Bassett is the mother of Guy Burgess, the young British diplomat who disappeared behind the Iron Curtain more than two years ago with his foreign-office colleague, Donald MacLean...
...been guardian rather than daring reformer, diplomat and preacher rather than crusader. He has (in his own phrase) "sown among ruins." He has shown his time that Stalin's famous question was not so much cynical as naive, and that anyone who perceives power only in divisions, or in bread and machines, sees the world about as realistically as a pre-Copernican astronomer...