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...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...
...Diplomatist. "Given to duty and very clever in carrying it out," was the way Fisherman-Essayist Henry van Dyke described Queen Wilhelmina in the days when he was U. S. Minister to her court...
...diplomatist, Her Majesty did not have many serious problems to be clever about in the first part of her reign. There was friction with Venezuela over the Dutch-owned islands of Curasao; the problem of protecting trade interests in Turkey and China; concern over Mexico's program, even then taking shape, of annexing foreign oil properties...