Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Collins, 57, the President would like to name his old friend, General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther, 52, NATO's scholarly chief of staff. But Ike is said to think that NATO needs Gruenther more than it needs General Matthew Ridgway, NATO commander. Ridgway, more of a fighter than a diplomat, could be counted upon to keep the U.S. Army in fighting shape. Leading candidate: Ridgway...
Light Out. Of all the shadowy figures in the Kremlin, Molotov is the man the world knows most about. In person, he is a small, unprepossessing, pigeon-toed man with golden pince-nez and the hardpan face of a gravedigger. Looking into his eyes, wrote British Diplomat Harold Nicolson, "is like looking into a refrigerator when the lights have gone...
...Diplomat in Action. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles is more impressed than most by Molotov's expertness. In his book, War or Peace, Dulles describes how Molotov seized on the personal foibles of each of his opponents at the 1945 London Council of Foreign Ministers...
...this day his white-collar origins embarrass Molotov. Once, when he was fulminating about the rights of the toiling masses, Britain's Bevin. a dockhand turned diplomat, rocked him with the question: "What do you know about workers?" Bevin waved his big, work-callused hands in Molotov's reddening face, and demanded: "Show me yours!" The Communist Foreign Minister, whose hands are soft as a banker's, kept them out of sight...
...Manhattan family, it was mother who made the glamour columns: Jolie Gabor announced that she planned to marry a fellow Hungarian who "looks like a diplomat, has the soul of a poet and the mind of an American businessman." Any chance of daughters Eva and Magda finding new husbands? Said Jolie sadly: "It is difficult to find husbands for them. They are not little Cinderellas. Always they have had the best minks and the best diamonds...