Word: diplomatically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Esme William Howard is a member of the younger branch of the Catholic Howard family, which has during hundreds of years produced the Dukes of Norfolk. On and off Sir Esme has been in the Brtish Diplomatic Corps for 38 years and is therefore a professional diplomat. For that very reason his appointment caused some comment in official circles, for it has been the almost invariable practice of the British Government to appoint men conspicuous in some other field of life. Being a Catholic and popular in Spain, it was felt that his position there, as Ambassador to the Court...
...politician, statesman and diplomat, Lord Derby has been considered "the most powerful individual influence in British politics." Certainly he has been successful, popular and practical. He is best remembered for his War Service Bill of 1916, which produced the Derby Recruits, and as British Ambassador to France from 1918 to 1920, which office he resigned because he was "tired of being in the limelight...
Divorced. Spencer Eddy, diplomat, 49, by Mrs. Lurline Elizabeth Spreckels Eddy, in Paris. She charged desertion. Private secretary to the late John Hay (the then U. S. Ambassador at the Court of St. James), and later Third Secretary of the American Embassy in London under the late Joseph Hodges Choate, he was often called "best dressed American...
Time was when the foreign diplomat appeared in the news only when he attended a royal christening, or took tea with Her Majesty. Today a newspaper is hardly complete without its piece of "ambassadorial criticism". Mr. Herrick's Champagne speech has stirred up more unfavorable comment than it warrants. It is his place to represent the American people. But the fact that he misinterprets his government's attitude, and states his opinion publicly does not necessitate the criticism of two countries. It is the government's duty to correct him and to forget about it. But, according to the Boston...
...ambassador's position, like the President's, become more difficult year by year. He is considered virtually public property. Mr. Harvey may not have been born a diplomat, but that does not excuse be criticism which he received for the wrinkled lapels of his dinner-coat, or the unbecoming appearance of his bone-rimmed spectacles. By all means the foreign minister should do his almost to represent his country creditably: but even he should be pardoned for an occasional slip...