Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Turkey's late Kemal Atatürk its first President, had called the British ambassador to his deathbed in 1938 and offered to make him the next President of Turkey. The incredible story appeared last week as part of an otherwise sobersided biography of the late British diplomat, Sir Pierson Dixon, written by his son. Before the Turks could protest, Tory M.P. Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe, a former diplomat, explained that it was all a 30-year-old joke perpetrated by himself. He had written a phony cable about Atatürk's dying offer...
...popular economist and polished diplomat, a veteran lecturer and fledgling novelist, a former presidential adviser and current cynosure of the Eastern intellectual set, John Kenneth Galbraith has long been a purveyor of predictions. For two decades they have come tumbling from his typewriter and tongue in prodigious quantities, covering every topic from women to world politics. Yet there are few predictions that Galbraith cherishes more?or wishes more that he had never felt com pelled to make?than his warning that a major U.S. involvement in Viet Nam would lead to disaster...
...forma licks, the two nations could nevertheless still rely on their "capital of reciprocal interest, attraction and admiration." De Gaulle then intoned a toast to Bohlen, who is returning to Washington as Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. "We have found you a diplomat of the highest order," he said. "I raise my glass in your honor, in honor of Franco-American friendship...
...absurd to think that any rich nation can survive when most of the world is starving," a Belgian diplomat said. "No one will be safe unless we build a solid middle-class of countries...
...more successful than Pearson in uniting Canada. What was required above all was a statesman with the perception and tact to avoid further aggravation of Canada's problems, and Pearson, for all the dreary confusion of his administration, was such a statesman. He brought the skills of a great diplomat to a situation where such skills were badly needed; his accomplishments were unexciting, but very real nonetheless. At no time in his ten-year political career did Lester Pearson enjoy the support of a large majority of Canadians, but if another man of his qualities cannot be found to succeed...