Word: diplomatiste
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...Able diplomatist that he is, His Holiness had foreseen that the Allies would fight. He had been "convinced that the use of force on one side would be answered by recourse to arms on the other." More important, devout Catholic that he is, he knew which side he was for, and, unlike his predecessors during War I, said...
Britain, to the Empire, to free speech, to Parliament. To Britons newly enraged by the German-Soviet Pact, he had been terribly justified. Elder Statesman Churchill expected no cheers for his foresight. He rushed off to have dinner with Harold Nicolson, M.P. (author of Portrait of a Diplomatist, Peacemaking, Dwight Morrow, Small Talk, Curzon: The Last Phase), and then hurried to his country home "Chartwell" in Kent to run his six secretaries ragged and hang on the telephone putting in calls all over Europe. "Now," said he, "Hitler...
...most substantial hope for peace, has been amply affirmed in the past twelve months. And in these months an equally cogent reason has become apparent. Mr. Hull, through his devotion to the President and to the nation, has proved himself the most heroically unselfish, able, and effectual diplomatist practicing in the world today...
When Harold Nicolson (Paul Verlaine, Portrait of a Diplomatist) was a small boy, he believed that the greatest man in the world was his uncle. Lord Dufferin, Queen Victoria's slight, swarthy, long-haired, dreamy-eyed Governor-General of Canada, Ambassador to Russia, Turkey, Italy and France, Viceroy of India, amateur painter, architect, Greek and Persian scholar, author. Lord Dufferin died in 1902, when Harold Nicolson...
...many writers owe as much to a house as does Victoria Mary ("Vita") Sackville-West, wife of Diplomatist-Biographer Harold Nicolson. Vita Sackville-West grew up in an Elizabethan castle which contains 365 rooms, 52 staircases, seven courts, covers seven acres-an environment where, says Hugh Walpole, dukes meant no more to her than Scotland Yard men did to Edgar Wallace. To this background, tall, brunette Author Sackville-West, now 45, owes the subject matter for The Edwardians, a novel which (in the U. S. at least) made her literary reputation, also her semi-legendary fame as heroine of Virginia...