Word: diplomatic
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...Reporter magazine) with his argument that future wars would be limited and tactical, necessitating a flexible NATO equipped with a "fire brigade" capable of quelling brushfire wars in Europe or Africa. During the campaign, Gavin offered Kennedy foreign policy recommendations by mail, sold himself as a potential diplomat with flair rather than experience, was pushed for Paris by Kennedy's Georgetown friend and neighbor. Bill Walton. Kennedy's design may be to match one obstreperous general with another (Gavin knows De Gaulle slightly), but the Quai d'Orsay was discreetly baffled by the appointment. So, less discreetly...
...Edwin Oldfather Reischauer, 50, is set to take over the embassy in Tokyo. Another Harvardman, Reischauer was born in Japan, graduated from Oberlin, received his Ph.D. from Harvard, where he is now director of the Center for East Asian Studies. Both scholar and diplomat, Reischauer spent considerable time in Japan, served on the State Department's Far Eastern desk in the hectic years of Asian upheaval after World War II, published more than half a dozen books on the Orient, has been an advocate of U.S. recognition of Communist China and a critic of American "overemphasis" on military power...
David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce, 62, Ambassador to Britain. The only diplomat ever to hold the top three ambassadorships in Europe-to France, Germany and Britain-Bruce has also won repute as a politician, industrialist, soldier, spymaster, wine connoisseur and art devotee...
...Maryland assembly from a Jewish slum district, rolled up millions as a broker and entrepreneur (oil, race tracks, distilleries, newspapers), in World War II became chief of espionage and sabotage in Europe for the Office of Strategic Services, won military decorations from seven countries. As a postwar diplomat, lifetime Democrat Bruce helped to forge the Schuman Plan and European Defense Community. Last week the British could scarcely conceal their delight over getting him. Despite the Kennedy drive for a big increase in embassy expense allowances. Bruce is one nominee who would have little trouble paying social expenses...
...Canada) in Laos, provided it was linked with a larger conference of nations to work out terms for peace. The U.S. has not agreed to a conference, but President Kennedy said last week that he wanted to see Laos an "independent country, peaceful country, uncommitted country." And a Soviet diplomat in Bangkok warned: "If the war goes on, the Americans will send in a division, the Chinese will answer with ten divisions, and we'll all be in trouble...