Word: diplomatized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colonies. He studied economics, began thinking in broad terms of Pacific, not simply Indies, economics. He found his right niche in 1934 when he entered the Department of Economic Affairs. In 1936 he represented the Indies at the Pan-Pacific Conference in California, and there he met that veteran diplomat, Kenkichi Yoshizawa, who was to succeed Ichizo Kobayashi as negotiator for Japan with the Indies...
Enrique Sanchez de Lozada, onetime Bolivian diplomat, now a Williams professor; Dr. Carlos Garcia-Mata, an Argentine businessman; and Roger W. Riis, son of the late social worker, Jacob Riis...
...another diplomat in waiting, a Russian, the Pact was equally good news. He was onetime Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, once No. 1 sales man of Russia's United Front. For a decade he held forth at Geneva, talking for collective security and against Fascism, was waved to the sidelines in 1939 when Russia changed her tactics, began her appeasement play for time...
Japan & Mr. M. On the responsible consideration given to Japan's so delicate situation hung not only the future of Japan but the future of her most aggressive diplomat, Yosuke Matsuoka. To Foreign Minister Matsuoka, his future and Japan's are scarcely distinguishable, but it would be possible for Japan's Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye and Japan's Privy Council and, above all, Japan's well-advised Emperor Hirohito to choose a course that would leave Mr. Matsuoka with no alternative but to resign. That would be the course of conservatism, of rapprochement with...
...Oakland, Calif, high school 46 years ago Yosuke Matsuoka wrote in an essay: "If my country needs a statesman, I will be the statesman." He has been businessman, diplomat, foreign minister; always he has anticipated, with the mind of a lightning calculator, what it was that his country would need. He was an Asiatic expansionist before the Manchukuo Incident, a totalitarian seven years before the Konoye reorganization. The crew haircut, the round, boy's face, the carefree smile, the candor, the courtesy, the mystic organ-note of his speechifying, all mask the hard core of the opportunist...