Word: diplomatized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that in forming it Russia had paid lip service to the Yalta pledges, and given the U.S. and Britain a chance to save face. Last week the U.S. joined Britain in official recognition of the revamped Warsaw government (see FOREIGN NEWS). At the same time Harry Truman named Career Diplomat Arthur Bliss Lane, 51, as U.S. Ambassador to the Poles...
This remark is the essence of genuine Vansittartism. After nearly 40 years as a British diplomat, Vansittart is convinced that the last peace was lost by the victors' tendency to put all the blame on a handful of men, on "economic pressure," or on the errors of other nations. Similar unreality, he thinks, imperils the present victory...
...Diplomat Herbert Agar, an ex-newsman and a greater expert on propaganda than on science, said in London last week: "If the war had gone on another six months ... it was probable that someone would have learned to break the atom without controlling it. ... There was a danger that the Germans would have learned . . . first...
...Europe (see INTERNATIONAL). Laurence Steinhardt is a lawyer, economist and author. As ambassador to Russia (193941), he went through the blitz in Moscow, signed the first Lend-Lease agreement with the Russians. He likes them and they like him. In Washington, he is rated as a top-drawer U.S. diplomat...
Cried one U.S. diplomat: "Sure, Argentina has the ships. Why the hell shouldn't she have? . . . Masters of the Argentine vessels carried safe-conduct papers issued by the German Navy. . . . Brazilian ships plied the same waters carrying critical war materials and 32 of the best ships flying the Brazilian flag were sent to the bottom...