Word: diplomatiste
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...born in a wigwam but was equally at home in London society. He was perhaps the only Indian leader who fully understood the fatal consequences of Indian disunity. Alexander McGillivray, the son of a Scottish trader and an Indian beauty, became paramount leader of the Creek nation and a diplomatist of genius, who maintained his people's independence long after the other tribes had surrendered...
Then at last it was Couve de Murville's turn. Couve, a brilliant, civilized, highly trained diplomatist, who among his colleagues would usually be seeking any new avenue of compromise, was now plainly little more than a messenger boy for le grand Charles. "It is being said that we broke off the negotiations." he declared. "In reality, our responsibility has been that of making clear that the negotiations have been taking place in a vacuum since October, and of having said that it is preferable to face the facts." Then he echoed the boss again: "When Britain can accept...
...Anna Gould divorced him after an 11-year phantasmagoria of pink marble palaces and $150,000 parties during which the Parisian gay blade skated through more than half of her $13.5 million inheritance. Two years later, she wed the fifth Duke of Talleyrand, a descendant of the wily French diplomatist whose machinations shaped post-Napoleonic Europe, lived with him for 29 years until his death...
...control over electoral machinery, held that Nu is now on his way out as a political leader. "If the initiative for turning over the government really did come from Nu, he must be rated a statesman," said one observer in Rangoon. "If not, he would still rate as a diplomatist for succeeding in keeping the word 'coup' out of announcements of this week's events...
...practical agenda of the Eden visit is to reach U.S.British agreement on some world trouble spots, especially on the Communist threat to the Middle East (TIME, Jan. 16). But this effort will probably be sterile unless the talks are permeated by the symbolic meaning of Eden in Washington. Diplomatist George Kennan to the contrary, international relations are not mere projections of practical national-power interests ; foreign affairs are also a quest for justice, in which each nation is indeed its brother's keeper, and the sovereignty of each is limited by a "decent respect" for the moral judgments...