Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...abstentions, 103. This meant that the motion was carried, the government was still on its legs, and France would have a voice at Bermuda-but since a majority of the Deputies had failed to endorse EDC, it was an all but fatal blow to that embryonic enterprise. Said one diplomat: "If EDC is born in France, it will be born by Caesarean section. And it practically involves the death of the government bringing it forth...
Within this social pyramid, the new middle class is most subject to change. Their expectations are rising: they want to get ahead. An experienced Western diplomat reports that he has seldom seen "so much drive for keeping up with the Joneses, so much materialistic thinking, so much Babbittry and seeking after 'culture' as there is in Moscow at present...
...artillery caisson, and drawn by 138 young reserve officers in a procession that stretched for two miles. Behind a military band playing Chopin's Funeral March slowly marched 80,000 Turks, including the President, the Premier, every Cabinet minister, every parliamentary deputy, every provincial governor and every foreign diplomat. Many of the 7,000 marching Turkish soldiers wore their Korean war decorations. Ten generals and two admirals escorted the coffin, while another admiral guarded a velvet cushion which bore the Medal of Independence, the only decoration Ataturk ever wore...
RELATIONS between the U.S. and Britain are now worse than most Americans think. On dozens of specific questions, debated in the world's chancelleries and at the U.N.. the attitudes and policies of the two allies are not merely different but actively opposed. Many a British diplomat spends more time undermining a U.S. position than in building joint defenses against Communism. And many a U.S. diplomat, busily countermining the British, worries more about them than he does about the Russians. Both nations are spending political energy against each other that could be used against the common...
...This note is tough," said a U.S. diplomat. "They are telling us ... to throw away our gun and brickbat while they keep theirs. Then they will negotiate. I note references to the possibility of World War III. That is something they haven't been talking about in their notes recently...