Word: diplomatized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George S. Messersmith, new Ambassador to Argentina, paused in Rio en route to Buenos Aires, had a reunion with ex-King Carol and Mistress Magda (he had known them in Mexico). Diplomat Messersmith had stoutly stuck up for them, and told how. When somebody had spoken slurringly about them, he had slammed back: "For 13 years he has been faithful to her; and for 13 years she has not looked at another man. Which is more than...
...last few pages of this new novel by Niven Busch (Duel in the Sun; They Dream of Home).* Mark and Corinne have top billing in the book, but Author Busch attempts to show what was happening in the lives of a dozen different people (including an old diplomat, a top sergeant, a fighting liberal) during V-J day's wild rejoicing. Day of the Conquerors is not so deep as a well nor so wide as a psychiatrist's door, but it is fast-paced, triple-gaited, and keyed...
...Appointed New York Industrialist Charles Ulrick Bay as Ambassador to Norway, to succeed veteran Diplomat Lithgow Osborne...
...classic definition: "An ambassador is an honest man, sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." (For another definition of a diplomat, see MILESTONES...
Died. Baron Emile Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne, 74, old-school Belgian Ambassador to London, bemonocled dean of the diplomatic corps of the Court of St. James's; of a heart attack; in London. A diplomat's diplomat, he loved verbal jousts with the press, once defined his job: "A good ambassador is one who carries off the pork without spilling the beans...