Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three rip-roaring attacks on imperialists and their "nonaligned" lackeys, he denied the platform to all but seven of his guests-and then ordered the suppression of an Algerian speech defending the U.N. Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman flew home early and a bored Egyptian diplomat shrugged, "This Bandung thing is only to appease Sukarno's immense...
Died. Sir Pierson Dixon, 60, donnish, unflappable diplomat, spare-time belle-lettrist and novelist, who as Britain's permanent representative to the U.N. (1954-60) coolly defended his nation in the furious 1956 debate over Suez, thereafter served as Ambassador to France (until February), playing a major role in the abortive negotiations for Britain's entry into the Common Market, after which he remarked sadly that reasoning with De Gaulle was "like trying to get through to a man wearing a suit of armor"; at Egham, Surrey...
...Stalin to lead the revolution in Asia. Though Mao now swings more weight, Ho is reluctant to accept him as any kind of overlord, subtly and cautiously tries to play Mao off against the Russians in order to secure greater freedom of action for himself. Says one Western diplomat admiringly: "The older Ho gets, the more skilled he becomes at playing one man against another, one faction against another, one nation against another...
...Pilgrims Society, Britain's new Ambassador to the U.S., jolly, Cambridge-educated Sir Patrick Dean, 56, noted that the only other Cantabrigian to have represented the Crown in Washington was Sir Edward Thornton, who clung to the post for 14 years (1867-81), longer than any other British diplomat. Said Sir Patrick: "You have been warned...
...world's fifth most populous nation have made the U.S. especially patient in dealing with the exasperating President Sukarno. But as he and the Indonesian Communist Party (P.K.I.) have grown increasingly violent in recent months, U.S. patience has worn thin. Last week President Johnson dispatched Veteran Diplomat Ellsworth Bunker, 70, to Djakarta to see what is left to save in Indonesian-American relations...