Word: diplomatist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's ex-Diplomat Harold Nicolson is no rookie in the wars of peacemaking. Some of his best, best-known books (Portrait of a Diplomatist; Curzon: The Last Phase) are centered around World War I's Versailles Conference, to which Nicolson was a delegate. More recently, he has been giving British radio listeners a blow-by-blow account of 1946's Paris Peace Conference. Few readers of this timely, lucid study of post-Napoleonic peacemaking will be able to resist drawing analogies between then and now-which is just what Author Nicolson warns them not to overdo...
...permitted to become a question of party politics. But he suggested that the U.S. had not learned an equally important lesson: that the chances of founding such an organization were far greater if the foundations were laid before rather than after the end of the war. Said Diplomatist Sumner Welles : "The Moscow Declaration should have been inseparably linked to an additional declaration setting up an agency, representative of all the United Nations." "Stark Imperialism." Eloquently Welles warned against further delay in setting up a council of all the United Nations: isolationism, in its earlier form, he said, is dead...
...anti-Chamberlain camp last week was Novelist-Historian H. G. Wells. In the London News Chronicle he also urged the removal of Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax, proposed that the whole Foreign Office be reorganized into a small committee of foreign relations, including Churchill, Labor Minister Bevin, senior career diplomatist Sir Robert Vansittart, Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair, Minister of Economic Warfare Hugh Dalton and old David Lloyd George. His Wellsian appeal to Chamberlain and followers: "Let us not recriminate. It is just because I believe that you are honorable and patriotic men that I implore you to have the magnanimity...
Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister of the Third Reich, is the hard-boiled diplomatist of a conquering power. But as a historian he is a regular Fritz Kuhn. Last week he let himself go on the Monroe Doctrine...
...years the U. S. has made much of its diplomatic inexperience. If the classic picture of a British diplomat is a well-read University man, trained to translate Rimbaud or snub the Estonian minister with equal aplomb, the classic figure of the U. S. diplomatist is a man who knows no foreign language, mixes up seating arrangements, and is just learning as he goes along. U. S. foreign service bags at the knees, pretends that its hearing is not very good, cannot dance, has only a vague idea of what is going on, is cheerfully disparaged by the populace...