Word: diplomatiste
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...Diplomatist's heart M. Barthou has been sure that Germany would refuse to sign. Last week this refusal was announced by German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath-thus proving one of M. Barthou's main points, that Germany will not agree to abide by her present frontiers. He will now return to his original program of an Eastern Pact signed by Germany's neighbors, plus Russia and, if possible, Italy. In such a chain of alliance, not in Germany's pledge on parchment however fine, Louis Barthou would prefer to put his trust. "The solemn...
...good book with a bad title (Some People). Public Faces is another such-a more ingenious and less amusing satire on the dignified, dangerous asininities of diplomacy and also a book that deserves a better name. Author Nicolson retails his solemn state secrets as one having had authority. Onetime diplomatist for Britain, he resigned before yielding to the temptation to be indiscreet...
...Navy, Justice, and State Departments during the war, and as the American Cryptographic Bureau hidden in New York after the war, written with an axe to grind. For the operations of the "American Black Chamber" were brought to a close in March, 1929 by Secretary Stimson, "the first diplomatist who, though well aware that all great powers have their Black Chambers, had the courage, or was it naivete?--to announce that diplomatic correspondence must be inviolate." The dedication page mentions "our skilful antagonists, the foreign cryptographers, who still remain behind the curtain of secret diplomacy...
...done. Lady Slane is perfectly hap py, dies at just the right moment. The Author. Victoria Mary ("Vita") Sackville-West writes with such urbanity and aloofness, with what seems like such an inward eye of aged solitude, it is hard to realize that she is only 39. Like her diplomatist husband. Harold Xicolson. she is of the quiet and well-mannered school, in the best tradition of English life & letters, a member of the gently brilliant Bloomsbury group that includes her good friends Virginia Woolf. Lytton Strachey, E. M. 1-orster. John Maynard Keynes. Knole Castle, her birthplace...
...foreign affairs takes on something of a juridical character, in that the persons concerned must endeavor to settle cases as they arise, considering both precedent and expediency in the light of the new conditions which may surround the problem at the moment of decision. All the rest of the diplomatist's occupation is only incident to enabling him, in urgent cases, to act promptly and wisely with the interest of his own Government, and the necessity for maintaining friendly relations with the Government to which he is accredited in mind. It is this purpose and this purpose only that...