Word: diplomatic
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Verwoerd is one of the ablest white leaders that Africa has ever produced. He has a photographic memory, an analytical mind and an endless capacity for work. He is a brilliant diplomat and an inventive politician. He is the inspired defender of the Afrikaner faith, the unquestioned captain of the Afrikaner laager. But his fortress is vulnerable and his enemy within. So taut are the nerves of South Africa's blacks that twice in recent months crashes of African commuter trains have set the passengers off in bloody rioting against their white engineers. Outside his confident country, there...
...become his own successor as chairman of Hill, Samuel & Co., Ltd., the largest of London's merchant banks in terms of capital, securities underwriting and profits. His prize catch was Baron Sherfield, 62, the former Sir Roger Makins, ex-barrister, able economist, gentleman-farmer, career diplomat and onetime (1953-56) Ambassador...
...Rice. In Peking, the Chinese Foreign Ministry fired off angry protests, then in retaliation for the "unjustified and shameful" expulsion of Diplomat Li, ordered Dutch Charge d'Affaires G. J. Jongejans to leave Red China. It was a hollow ouster, for Peking cops promptly took up positions outside the Dutch legation in order to keep Jongejans a prisoner until the welders in The Hague were released. The whole affair, railed the enraged Chinese, had nothing at all to do with kidnaping, but really involved a malicious plot by the CIA and reflected "Dutch government support of the anti-China...
Despite his age (now 30), he was the obvious choice as Prime Minister of the Sudan's first democratic government in seven years. Sadik remained in the background "to concentrate on party affairs," instead named Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub, 58, a chainsmoking poet and veteran diplomat...
Died. General Andrew G. L. McNaughton, 79, Canada's foremost soldier, respected scientist and diplomat; of a heart attack; in Montebello, Que. McNaughton's intense belief in independent Canadian nationhood overlaid everything he did, whether serving as president of his country's National Research Council (1935-39), or sitting as a member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1946). But Canadians know him best as the World War II commander of Canadian troops in Europe, who bitterly disputed Allied plans to commit his men piecemeal, arguing that his divisions should form a single force "pointed at the heart...