Word: diplomatized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appointed Assistant Secretary of State Nelson A. Rockefeller's great & good friend Wallace Kirkman Harrison, 49, as the $10,000-a-year Director of Inter-American Affairs. No career diplomat, Appointee Harrison is a Manhattan architect, co-designer of Rockefeller Center and the New York World's Fair Trylon & Perisphere...
Hotel Berlin (Warner), complete with undergrounders, traitors and hot & cold running Nazis, turns Vicki Baum's old Grand Hotel formula to topical account. Its salient characters: an old-line general (Raymond Massey) trying to escape the consequences of plotting against Hitler's life; a diplomat (Henry Daniell) who is sorry he can't help him; a Goebbelsesque Gestapoman (George Coulouris) who gets thrown down an elevator shaft; an actress (Andrea King) who will help or betray anyone to keep herself safe; a handsome anti-fascist fugitive (Helmut Dantine) who gets help from her, and kills her when...
...Stalin rather than Roosevelt or Churchill who firmly refused to make revisions before San Francisco-whither, as a result, France will now go as a guest, not as a sponsor. Just to make matters pikestaff-plain. Soviet Ambassador Alexander E. Bogomolov elucidated Russian realism v. French realism for Diplomat Maurice Dejean of the Quai d'Orsay: "France should not try to sing above her range...
...Bronx's Edward J. Flynn, onetime political boss turned diplomat, was busy on a mysterious mission to Moscow. Presumably, he was laying the groundwork for U.S. mediation. By the time Flynn finishes his business in Moscow, New York's diminutive Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, a Vatican favorite and the man most likely to represent the Pope in Kremlin negotiations, will reportedly be waiting for him somewhere in Europe or Africa...
Married. Stephanie Pell, 20, Paris-born daughter of U.S. diplomat Robert Thompson Pell (now in Paris as SHAEF assistant political officer); and one Roger Déchame, 23, a sailor in the French Navy, whom she met while christening the U.S.S. Ticonderoga, named for the historic Revolutionary fort on the Pell's upstate New York estate; in Manhattan's French Huguenot Church of Saint-Esprit...