Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine black-caped judges of the federal court of appeals in Rio pondered an age-old question: Are men and women equal? The question had been raised again by pretty Maria Sandra Cordeiro de Mello, 21-year-old daughter of a wealthy army colonel. Ambitious to be a diplomat, Maria Sandra had appealed a lower court ruling which held that the government may exclude women from its diplomatic service...
Also mentioned are George Kennan, former Ambassador to Russia and chief long-range advisor to the State Department since 1949; Dr. Charles Malik, Lebanese delegate to the United Nations; Alan Dulles, diplomat and new head of the Central Intelligence Agency; General James Van Fleet, former United Nations Commander in the Far East; and Chester Bowles, former Ambassador to India...
...handsome tribute in a land where the simple goodness of a Francis of Assisi, the Italians' patron saint, is more admired than the brilliance of a Thomas Aquinas."He is a good man," explains one Italian. "He means what he says.""De Gasperi," said a top U.S. diplomat who has long worked with the Premier, "has done more to advance democratic government than any other statesman in Europe today. To take a country which has undergone 20 years of Fascist rule, and just come through a devastating war, and build it up as he has. is nothing short...
...ballot boxes-an enemy more ruthless, more disciplined, better organized than his own wobbly coalition. While many Italians with faint hearts and fat pocketbooks began planning flight from the country, De Gasperi and his allies licked the enemy-fair, square and decisively. "He has done this thing," the U.S. diplomat says, "and because he has done it successfully, it looks easy. But if he hadn't done it, Italy would have gone Communist." For his past victories (and also for many of his current handicaps), De Gasperi is indebted to probably the queerest political alliance in Italian history...
...that than ... to the European Army." The U.S. could not keep large forces in an indefensible Europe. "I do not believe that the Americans are going to send a great many troops over here to fight and die protecting Germans while the Germans sit by as spectators," said Diplomat Dulles, and he added bluntly: "Perhaps the French will feel like doing that, but the Americans...