Word: diplomatized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eisenhower. An officer but a gentleman; a thoroughgoing diplomat (they are born, not appointed), and one who, for all our clowning, is still on our side...
...Mountains. The most colorful diplomat on the current U.S. scene was born 51 years ago, in the Montana mountain country. His future was shaped at birth: Spruille's father was William Braden, an engineer and promoter who followed the mining business from Montana to Chile, got rich in the process, and in his day was famous throughout the southern continent...
...which President-Dictator Juan Batista's regime was voted out. Braden forbade U.S. business interests in Cuba to pony up the usual election ante ($2,000,000 in that case) and otherwise encouraged a free vote. Even Batista praised him: "He is more a man than a diplomat." So far, the Braden doctrine and the Braden way have failed in their most conspicuous, most important test-in Argentina. There, at the crest of his career as a Hemisphere Ambassador, Braden early this year locked horns with Dictator Juan Domingo Perón, threw every personal and official weight against...
...delegate, Jimmy Byrnes appointed Major General Frank McCoy, 70, U.S.A. (retired), who in his 41 years of active duty in many countries was sometimes referred to as "the Army's ablest diplomat." McCoy was on the Lytton Commission which tried to do something about the Japs in Manchuria in 1932. He was on the Roberts Commission which made the first investigation of Pearl Harbor, is now president of the Foreign Policy Association...
...happened to run side by side; the Japanese Government wanted the people to roll with the punches, MacArthur was not set for a haymaker. Each wanted to spar around, learn more about the other. As political adviser to MacArthur. Washington named plump, 48-year-old George Atcheson Jr., career diplomat and counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Chungking during much of the war. Able, experienced in Far Eastern affairs, Atcheson was a flexible man who could not be branded with any political label...