Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stunned and disbelieving Assembly watched him go. An Irish diplomat said, "He is a very difficult man to understand. I imagine it must be a trying experience for him to appear in this kind of a parliamentary body. He is used to making speeches to unanimous audiences which give him nothing but applause." Another neutral delegate added, "I suppose he really thought he could take the U.N. by storm, especially the uncommitted nations. But he ended up with a left-wing African publicly criticizing him, and the Assembly applauding the criticism...
Tender Grass. This was heartening news for the world's neutrals who, in the words of a Burmese diplomat, have sometimes felt like "the tender grass between the feet of two savage buffaloes locked in mortal combat." At this U.N. session the neutralist nations have thrown themselves between the colossi of East and West in the prayerful hope of ending the cold war. Feelings of alarm swept the uncommitted countries at the table thumpings and rocket rattlings of Nikita Khrushchev. They were dismayed by the parliamentary maneuvering of the U.S., which saw no advantage to "renewed" talks between Eisenhower...
Black invents a phrase, "development diplomacy," that is, "how to secure advantages in terms of development without arousing too much hostility." The development diplomat's job is to "illuminate the choices" before the governments of poor nations, to show them the possible effects that building a Brasilia, or laying a railway, may have on the growth of the economy. By no means should he attempt to make the choices himself--that should be left to the politicians--for he may ignore the social and political implications of his decision. There is nothing new about any of this, but Black puts...
...could hardly be more plainly or more directly said. Black regrets the fact that the area in which the "diplomat" could be most effective, that of policy planning, is so new and so shrouded with the misconceptions of those in authority, that more often than not the economist who tries to outline long-term programs is confined to short-term objectives. (Presumably this distrust of planning is the reason why the U.S. Congress continually refuses to extend the Mutual Security program beyond a length of one year. The many unhappy results of this policy--technicians abandoning projects for which funds...
...treatment" by Lumumba supporters. He assured everyone who would listen that he was not a politician and that politics "are too complicated for me." Then he got drunk. At week's end, after his 15-day venture into the disturbing world beyond the rim of his washtub, ex-Diplomat Kinda was sleeping it off in the Brazzaville jail...