Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure history will record 1965 as the year when, after 20 years of sleep, the Germans awoke to a sense of nationalism," asserts one French diplomat. This new nationalism shows none of the ugly, fanatical marks of the Nazi era. So far, at least, it consists of an increased self-confidence and a growing concern with national purpose. Unsettling though it may be for a watching world, this awakening was, as Willy Brandt said not long ago, "as inevitable as the sunrise. No people can live without pride...
Tykocinski, who for eight years had been the ranking Polish diplomat in West Berlin, was the most important Communist to defect to the West in years. He was also one of the most puzzling. Known to fellow diplomats as "the Gypsy Baron," Tykocinski is a gregarious bear of a man who liked to claim he was "a socialist but not a Communist." Nevertheless, he enjoyed the full confidence of his government, for the Berlin post was obviously a major intelligence center, and last year he was awarded Poland's Commander Cross for outstanding services. Outside the PX last week...
...give you a kick," he said. "I expect to get kicked, but I don't expect to duck." Replying to complaints about his decision to send troops into the Dominican Republic, Johnson snapped: "I realize I am running the risk of being called a gunboat diplomat, but that is nothing compared to what I'd be called if the Dominican Republic went down the drain...
...protect her trade relations from the constraints of partisan diplomacy. Japan is expected to continue to press for an independent role in world affairs; she may oppose American policy on many points and may move closer to a policy of neutrality. But non-alignment," says one senior Japanese diplomat. "It has never been accomplished before, the combining of industrially huge power with truly neutral leadership. It will be extremely difficult...
...grandson of Britain's retired Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and a second-year student at Oxford's brainy Balliol College; from an apparent overdose of drugs; two days after returning from a Madrid vacation with his fiancée, Kara Yatsevitch, 18, daughter of an American diplomat stationed in Spain; in his room at Oxford...