Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...difficult to keep track of all the intellectuals with strange-sounding names and unorthodox notions who orbit the campuses, think tanks and Government. While renowned in those circles, Henry Alfred Kissinger is not exactly, as Spiro Agnew might have said, a household name. Though he has never been a diplomat, he knows more foreign leaders than many State Department careerists. A superficial reading of some of his works makes him seem like a hawk, but many intellectual doves regard him as Richard Nixon's most astute appointment. Bonn, London and Paris may disagree on a score of issues, but they...
...agonies of the most recent war it helped cause. Yet it has become once again the dominant political emotion in Europe. No one has rekindled "la gloire" more assiduously than Charles de Gaulle. When Sampson interviewed Franz Josef Strauss, West Germany's Finance Minister mocked De Gaulle the diplomat as "a cross between Joan of Arc and a political cosmonaut." Yet, as Sampson notes, De Gaulle has "taken full advantage of the glamour of nationalism" as well as the allure of anti-Americanism. For his own lifetime, at least, he has blocked the dream of fellow Frenchman Jean Monnet...
...Soviet leadership has of course never fully believed its own propaganda image of the American as a top-hatted, cigar-puffing Wall Street capitalist. But neither has it built up an objective store house of information on the U.S., even for scholars. An American diplomat stationed in Moscow some years ago, for example, discovered that books pertaining to the study of the U.S.-Persian relations in the famed Lenin library were catalogued under the letter I, for "In famous U.S.-Persian relations." Such a lack of the generalist's sane overview often made American society, as seen from Moscow...
What the young firebrand proposed was nothing less than a commando raid on the coast of England or Ireland. The invaders would capture "some ministerial Men of Consequence" and then exchange them for a captured American diplomat. The raid never materialized, but the war was won anyway and the plotter went on to triumphs in other fields. He was John Jay, first Chief Justice of the United States, who in 1781, as a 35-year-old emissary to Spain, hatched the kidnaping scheme in a letter to a friend in France. Jay's daring plan remained virtually unknown...
...Bitterness. Since 1956, Davies has partly supported himself, his wife and seven children on $4,000 a year in retirement pay. In 1964, he published Foreign and Other Affairs, a collection of short essays. In it, he described himself somewhat ruefully as "an unfrocked diplomat...