Word: diplomatized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vacuum compounded of mistrust and indecision in the Senate, "studies" by the State Department's studious Adolf Berle-and a man to head the U.S. delegation to the forthcoming conferences. The man: ex-U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Joseph Clark Grew, a good diplomat who nonetheless knew nothing about aviation, until he got his new assignment two weeks ago. The only other certainty was that no U.S. air "expert" liked Britain's well-ordered I.A.T.A. All sides were quick to point out that Britain, as the No. 1 sea power, had never seen fit to call for such...
Douglas MacArthur II, 34, nephew of the General, son-in-law of Kentucky's Alben Barkley, is a gaunt young diplomat who used to be secretary of the U.S. Embassy at Vichy under Admiral William D. Leahy, now President Roosevelt's personal military adviser. While Diplomat Henry-Haye was escorted to the lilies and languors of Hershey, Diplomat MacArthur was packed off to a dreary Vichy prison camp at Lourdes, was later turned over to the Nazis...
...diplomats in South America kept the cables hot. But at least one was caught off guard. When Chile seemed on the point of welcoming Argentina's new anti-U.S. government, the State Department frantically tried to get in touch with its Chilean Embassy. But sad-eyed Ambassador Claude G. Bowers, 65, who has not bothered to perfect his Spanish during eleven years as a diplomat in Spain and South America, could not be reached.* He was off in the country, relaxing on a long, leisurely weekend...
...apparent afterthought, Diplomat Simich observed that no U.S. official had spoken out clearly for Tito, that the Yugoslav Ambassador to the U.S., Constantin Fotich, was a cousin of quisling Milan Nedich, yet persona gratissima in Washington. Fotich, said Simich, controls all Yugoslav Cabinets through his control of Yugoslav gold...
...Argentine Way. The U.S. is apt to have long-continued trouble with Argentina. This prospect was further indicated last week by another Argentinian, Ramón Lavalle, a liberal Argentine journalist and ex-diplomat (who has anglicized his name to rhyme with "canal"). Lavalle wrote in the March issue of the Atlantic Monthly...