Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assume great proportions, and greatly serve her own interest and that of the human race as well." The strategy is De Gaulle's, but he is fortunate in having at his side a nearly flawless technician in his coolly astute Foreign Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, 57, a diplomat with the surgically precise intellect and single-minded determination necessary to implement so ambitious a foreign policy...
...Briand clung tenaciously to the Foreign Ministry, explaining: "If I leave, the rightists will get a minister of their choice who will return to a policy of force. This will make the fortune of the German nationalists." At tending a bullfight in Spain, Briand reacted like a polished diplomat, observing, "Suppress the matador, the picadors and the toreadors and let me go into the arena with a little bundle of hay, and you will see that I'll make peace with the bull...
...months there was no Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Then Kennedy brought in Robert Woodward, a career diplomat. He lasted a year. In the meantime, Harvard Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. joined Goodwin in making White House policy to go along with the State Department policy Berle was making and the programs put forth by the CIA and the Defense Department. Bobby Kennedy tried a trip to Latin America; so did Adlai Stevenson and Kennedy himself. Eventually, Edwin Martin was made Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. He served until President Johnson, in his first major...
...collection of Dr. and Mrs. James H. Semans of Durham, N.C., who first saw it in 1962 when they visited the Kraushaar Galleries in Manhattan. Later, Dr. Semans decided to buy the painting as a Christmas present for his wife, a daughter of the late U.S. Diplomat A. J. Drexel Biddle Jr. "Our first impulse was to hang it in the bedroom or the upstairs hall," said Dr. Semans, "but the painting was so lovely that we decided it should go in the living room...
...Hotel. When Picard intervened, Karume stormed into the hotel lounge and exploded. "Why are you interfering in our internal affairs?" he raged. "Why, why, why? Why did you evacuate your people without informing us? Why will you not recognize us?" He ordered Picard arrested, and armed thugs marched the diplomat off at gunpoint. Next day, Picard and the journalists were ordered off the island, and rigid censorship was imposed on the reporters who remained...