Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...selection of Mr. Hammarskjold as Secretary-General on March 31, 1953, was hailed by the press as the first important action in nearly two years on which the United States and the Soviet Union agreed. Agreement was possible because delegates felt that the little-known Swedish diplomat was a capable administrator who would run the organization efficiently without stepping on anyone's toes...
...Hammarskjold stepped from obscurity to fill this role with a talent the world had not yet recognized. An expert on finance whose translations of French verse won critical acclaim, he combined the resourcefulness of a diplomat with the vision of a poet. His vision, the philosophy of international cooperation which inspired his many expeditions of mediation and reconciliation, including his fatal mission to the Congo, found its fullest expression in the document which turned out to be his final testament to the world. In the report which he was to have submitted to the General Assembly upon his return from...
...being frank: "I do not remember who it was who said that a diplomat is given a tongue in order to conceal his thoughts. He who does that is no diplomat but a cheap politician. His policy is bound to end in failure. I do not belong to that sort...
...reports, he sent Goodwin a box of Havana cigars with a note: "As writing to an enemy is difficult-and I am not good at writing-I hereby extend my hand." The two finally got together at a birthday open-house party at the apartment of a Brazilian diplomat named Gerson Augusto da Silva...
...Diplomat Cicognani was born in the small central Italian town of Brisighella, where his widowed mother ran a general store to support her two sons. Both of them became priests and distinguished themselves in Vatican affairs. Pope Pius XI sent Amleto to the U.S. as apostolic delegate in 1933. Brother Gaetano, now Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites at the Vatican, was made a cardinal in 1953-In Washington, Cicognani began his day at 6 a.m. and expected his associates to do the same. He delivered more than 4,000 speeches, consecrated 56 U.S. bishops, and ordained 800 priests...