Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wary Respect. But Kennedy's youthful vigor and far-ranging intelligence are clearly recognized and widely admired. Western Europeans, from the man in the street to the diplomat in the chancellery, support the truism that "a new man is entitled to a few mistakes." Much criticism is tempered by Kennedy's courageous willingness to shoulder the blame for errors committed...
...shaven, nervous, speaking in halting French, Belkacem Krim was clearly a better guerrilla leader than a diplomat; he understood little of the give and take of negotiation. Yet last week Krim was winning good marks for his leadership of the F.L.N. delegation at the French lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains. France's Algerian Affairs Minister Louis Joxe was impressed by Krim's obvious sincerity, his single-mindedness, and the studied moderation of his language. "He and his kind were hunted like wolves for years on end," said one French delegate. "It would be futile to expect...
...egations, one from the Pathet Lao guerrillas and the other from ex-Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma (who stayed away, but sent his lissome, sari-clad daughter as a delegate). The pro-Western royal Laotian government, on hearing that it would be outnumbered, boycotted the conference-even though a British diplomat in Laos spent all day on a motor scooter trying to track down the Foreign Affairs Secretary and get him to change his mind...
...Cabinet, mostly civilian, is probably the most efficient that the country ever had. Last year Sarit allocated as much money for education as for defense. Corruption, which is a tradition in Asia, is at a conventionalized minimum. "This place is amazing for Southeast Asia," said a U.S. diplomat. "The government reaches down to the village level." Added a U.S. aid official: "We can trace every expenditure down to the last nickel...
...refuses to equate man's frailty with his destiny. He never confuses the tragic with the merely hopeless. Seferis' career as a diplomat in many of the world's trouble spots has conditioned his view of history as a terrain of action rather than impotence. Indeed, so diligent a diplomat is Seferis that he writes all his poetry at night, often as late as 3 a.m., when he can concentrate in solitude...