Word: diplomatic
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Died. Sir Alexander Cadogan, 83, British diplomat who was his country's first delegate to the United Nations; in London. Cool and detached, impeccable in dress and manner, Cadogan came to epitomize the "Foreign Office type" during his 42-year career, was a chief wartime adviser to Winston Churchill as head of the Foreign Office from 1938 to 1946, and with peace sounded a note of quiet logic amid all the squabbles at the infant...
...most unusual court appearance in Germany's postwar history. On the witness stand in Bonn's criminal court sat the Chancellor of West Germany, Kurt Georg Kiesinger. He had been subpoenaed to testify in the war crimes trial of a former diplomat who was charged with arranging transportation for 11,343 Bulgarian Jews to German death camps. The defense plea was a familiar one for postwar Germany: the defendant had not known what was happening in those camps. Defense lawyers summoned Kiesinger on the grounds that if he, as acting chief of the Foreign Ministry's radio...
...recognizing that American society as a whole could not be held totally free of responsibility for what had happened. Newsday Columnist Flora Lewis suggested that the violence in American life cannot be separated so easily from American idealism, from the American dream. She quoted the wife of a U.S. diplomat at the U.N.: "America is a place where people really can do something if they pick themselves up and try. It's the beauty and the danger all at once. I saw on TV the women of Dearborn, Mich., the same women who had organized for all sorts...
...candidate to plunge into crowds, to "press the flesh" until his right hand bleeds, to ride in open cars, to stand silhouetted against TV lights. Nor is the assassination in Los Angeles likely to alter such techniques. Two weeks before his death, Robert Kennedy himself told French Novelist-Diplomat Remain Gary: "There is no way to protect a candidate during an electoral campaign. You have to give yourself to the crowd and from then on count your luck." Kennedy, of course, pressed his luck recklessly...
Charles E. Bohlen, LL.D., diplomat...