Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only Katanga would prove as easy to crack," sighed one Western diplomat in the Congo last week. But Moise Tshombe was holding out as stubbornly as ever for his region's autonomy, and for the lion's share of the vast concession fees of Ka tanga's Belgian and British-controlled copper and cobalt riches. As U.S. Under Secretary of State George McGhee conferred patiently in Elisabethville, hoping to convince Tshombe that Katanga must return to the Congo fold, U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant published a U.N. report from Leopoldville which charged that Tshombe was beefing...
...meticulous jurist and diplomat, whose favorite description of himself is "a brain on ice," Zafrulla has always been, in an era of revolution and extremism, an advocate of moderate policies. Unfailingly courteous, even in the most heated debates, he disdains flamboyant and vituperative oratory in favor of low-keyed logical argument, has often clashed in the U.N. with his archfoe, India's leading warlock, V. K. Krishna Menon. Though Zafrulla was an early champion of Indian independence, he never became a crusader or an inmate of political prisons like Nehru, preferred instead to work for an evolutionary agreement with...
Curiously enough, the fuller and more logical account of the incident came from a Soviet diplomat in India, who said that the pilot was a Nationalist Chinese who had trained for six years in the U.S. By way of deflating Red China's braggadocio, he added that a flame-out had forced the U-2 far below its maximum working altitude of above 80,000 ft., enabling the Chinese to shoot it down. The Russian denied that it was shot down by Soviet-supplied ground-to-air missiles, though Formosa's U-2s reportedly fly over an IRBM...
Community of Nations. Moderator of this global forum is Hamilton Fish Armstrong, a vigorous, white-haired, bushy-browed man of 69 who qualifies for the post both by lineage and interest. Grandnephew of Grant's Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish, and son of a U.S. diplomat (D. Maitland Armstrong. U.S. consul general to Italy in 1871), Armstrong served briefly as a military attache in the U.S. consulate in Belgrade in 1919 before becoming European correspondent for the New York Evening Post. Then, in 1922, the Council on Foreign Relations, a group of Manhattan financiers, lawyers and businessmen, started Foreign...
...Europe (see WORLD BUSINESS), the Commonwealth still must make the emotional and intellectual adjustments that come harder than economic concessions. As they planned for a new round of negotiations, starting next month, most Common Market statesmen sympathetically acknowledged the obstacles in the way of British membership. Shrugged one diplomat in Brussels last week: "There will be tough moments ahead." He added: "But it will be. It will...