Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dillon made a doubtful start as a diplomat. "Whenever a difficult problem came up." recalls one former embassy staffer, "he got a cold in the head." But as France's problems-notably in Indo-China and with the European Defense Community-grew worse, Dillon stepped up to the challenge of his assignment. He and Phyllis spent an hour daily with a French tutor; within weeks Dillon was visiting the Quai d'Orsay without an interpreter. In a social swim where lavish entertainment was a matter of courses...
...defeated Nazi Germany, and without outward emotion scribbled his name on the document that ended World War II in Europe. Those two rustic but historic occasions marked the climax of a brilliant military career for Walter Bedell Smith. In the postwar years, he served his nation notably as a diplomat and as chief of intelligence. But it is in his role as the able military planner who helped map the great campaigns of World War II that "Beedle" Smith must be long remembered...
Both sides were firmly committed to established positions, and the question remained which, if either, would have to give way. The U.S. was looking around for prospects that would entail no surrendering but might, as one U.S. diplomat put it, "buy us a continuation of the status quo." Thanks to the U.S.'s obvious determination, its rapidly build ing military strength and its united will, President John Kennedy and his negotiators could undertake the talks with more face cards in their hands...
These are the words of the paratroop general who led "The Battered Bastards of Bastogne," of the military diplomat who commanded U.S. troops in Berlin (1949) and Korea (1953), of the scholarly Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (1945), of the restless, rebellious Army Chief of Staff under Dwight Eisenhower. They are the words of General Maxwell Davenport Taylor, U.S.A. (ret.), soldier and statesman who, by a remarkable turn in the wheel of fortune and the special needs of John F. Kennedy, last week had the biggest, toughest job of his career: military and intelligence adviser...
...same eerie consciousness of being under intimate, round-the-clock surveillance weighs heavily on every U.S. official who lives and works in a Communist state. Electronic eavesdropping has become so insidious and ubiquitous an art behind the Iron Curtain that there is hardly a single spot where a Western diplomat-or even a vacationer-can talk with utter certainty that Big Brother is not listening. Says one old State Department hand: "You just have to get used to living with it. It's like living in a haunted house...