Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West reneged on its promise. It decided that it would be impolitic to force Tito out of Trieste at a time when he might be won over to the West; it chose the easier course of forgetting its promise to Italy, explaining it away, as a Foreign Office diplomat did only last week: "If a solution were possible, we'd propose it straightaway . . . But ... I honestly don't see a solution in view. They've just got to compromise, the pair of them...
...tempered, sometimes highhanded man, President Stoddard was anything but a diplomat with legislators. Complained one trustee: "How would you like to go to Springfield to get some money from the legislature and be asked by everybody in the corridors: 'When are you going to fire Stoddard...
Slim, buoyant Frances Willis is a hardworking, tactful career diplomat. A Ph.D. (Stanford), she taught history at Goucher and politics at Vassar before entering the foreign service at 28, served tours of duty in Chile, Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and Finland. In 1944-45 she was assistant to Under Secretary of State Joseph Grew, who says of her nomination to be Ambassador to Switzerland: "I think nobody could do a better job than...
Stalin did not underestimate the difficulties. "Communism," he once remarked to a diplomat, "fits Germans the way a saddle fits a cow." The job required an agent as cold and slippery as a block of ice, an unregenerate Dr. Faustus, to whom all East Germany would be a Margarete. Walter Ulbricht was ready. For 25 years the tailor's son from Leipzig had pursued the dark alchemy of Communist intrigue in preparation for the call...
...occupation boss, or "supreme commissar," Moscow appointed bald Vladimir Semenov, a personable or non-Vishinsky type of diplomat, until recently chief political adviser to Chuikov and Soviet ambassador to the East German puppet government. A polished veteran of diplomacy although he is only 50, Semenov once taught philosophy, Soviet-style. He speaks German and some English. Across the negotiating table he gives the impression of at least comprehending points of view other than...