Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wish this country had a little less of the intellectual fringe and more horse sense." On his first visit to India as Commonwealth Relations Secretary, Home questioned the value of neutrality in talks with government leaders. "Weakness invites aggression," he said. He is an informal, unself-conscious diplomat who sometimes shows up for conferences in old worn carpet slippers, but his blunt talk often infuriates people. A cherished tribute to his forensic skill is a cable he received after one outspoken verdict. "To hell with you," it said. "Offensive letter follows...
...shape of the Western Alliance has never been wider. When French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Nurville conferred with President Kennedy last week, paving the way for a De Gaulle visit to the U.S. next year, the difference of their opinions made it, in the words of one diplomat, "a dialogue of the deaf...
...escape. One reason for Moscow's reticence: a man named Chou Hsiang-pu was one of Peking's security agents during the 1954 Geneva conference on Indo-China. If he is the defector, he probably has a far more interesting tale to tell Moscow than any ordinary diplomat...
...principle than an admission of fallibility") seem absurd; and the important documentary of Dr. Eisenhower's personal involvement in the Tractors for Freedom Committee disappears as another inessential anecdore. To call the work political science is to misrepresent it. It is more accurately the saga of an American diplomat whose yankee charm shows clearly through his narrative's numberless personal stories...
Office finally got wind of Santawirja's extracurricular employment, and the Indonesian diplomat skipped out of the country and returned home. Last week a new Indonesian ambassador officially apologized to the Danish government for the charge's free enterprise...