Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Self-Serving Motives. Friedlander has already been subject to counterattack. In a recent issue of America, Jesuit Historian Robert Graham says that he ignored documents that do not support his case. Other Catholic experts charge that Friedlander has failed to consider the self-serving motives of the German diplomats whose reports are so crucial to his thesis. Von Bergen, for example, was an ambitious professional diplomat who hoped for promotion in Germany's foreign service. Von Weizsacker was an anti-Nazi Protestant who apparently wished to prevent Hitler from taking any action that would harm Pius personally...
...Gaulle, who said non once before and could do it again. So Wilson is probing carefully and cautiously, and this time actual negotiations are not likely to begin until all the major issues have been quietly settled in advance-probably late this year or early next. As one British diplomat put it last week: "We're not going in until we get the green light and a red carpet...
Last week Hildred finally retired as head of IATA. In picking his successor, IATA members clearly showed that they thought it was time to have a diplomat instead of a curmudgeon to lead the organization. Taking over is Knut HammarskjÖld, 44, a nephew of the United Nations' late Dag HammarskjÖld. Knut has most recently served as deputy secretary-general of the European Free Trade Association in Geneva. He seems to lean toward lower fares, but everyone expects that whatever he does, he will do it more tactfully than Hildred...
Room for Initiative. Gronouski, the grandson of a Polish immigrant and a former university economics professor, has turned into an effective, if somewhat unconventional, diplomat. He pumps Polish hands, kisses Polish babies, stalks the streets of Warsaw in his cocked grey astrakhan, gabs with Polish waiters at embassy cocktail parties. That casual curiosity stood Gronouski in good stead during his Eastern European swing. The first stop was Rumania, the most independent of the former Soviet satellites and the most eager for U.S. trade (TIME cover, March...
...Adventurers' international-jet-set subjects would confound a Zola. In the hands of Robbins they become like the projections of CinemaScope: highly colored, nine times larger than life, and relentlessly two-dimensional. One of the projections is Diogenes ("Dax") Xenos, diplomat, soldier, businessman, patriot, politician, international satyr and unintentional satire. Dax is to women what Dash is to washing machines: he makes them feel ten feet tall. His sometime pals, a French playboy and a White Russian con man, are not far behind in their technique: one of them receives a gold cigarette case from a female admirer inscribed...