Word: diplomatized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. Norman Armour Jr., 21, Princeton junior, only child of U.S. Ambassador to the Argentine Norman ("The Ideal Diplomat") Armour; and Cynthia Sewell Burrage, 19, granddaughter of the late multimillionaire Boston copper king Albert Cameron Burrage; in Boston...
...Tokyo sped the pleased little diplomat, through border country from which Japanese troops were already being moved south to new spheres of action. In his brief case was the precious pact, signed by himself and Russia's Premier Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov just a week before. Tokyo newspapers were already hailing it as a "new sword" in Japan's hand, with which Japan would try to settle its differences with Great Britain, the U.S., The Netherlands Indies and China-diplomatically, if possible. If diplomacy did not succeed, Japan no longer feared attack from the rear...
...woman playwright (The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes), has written an uneven play concerning Naziism, but it is by far the best on the subject to date. There is not a single Nazi in it. It tells of the daughter of a dead American diplomat (Mady Christians), who returns from Europe to her luxurious, flower-filled old home outside Washington, D.C., bringing with her the German engineer (Paul Lukas) she married 20 years before and their three children. Since 1933 her husband has been an underground fighter against Hitler and he is about to sneak back into Germany...
...week's end Belgrade heard a detailed story: the British were rushing 300,000 men to Greece; 100,000 had already debarked, equipped with tanks, flame throwers, artillery and all the paraphernalia of attack. A "neutral diplomat" swore that he had, with his own neutral eyes, seen British soldiers step down gangplanks on to Greek soil and march off singing to their billets. The British were said to have landed matériel for five divisions...
Died. Nicholas ("Collective Security") Titulescu, 57, towering, trigger-witted Rumanian diplomat, picturesque pillar of the League of Nations in its palmy days, six times his country's pro-French, pro-democratic Foreign Minister, leader with Eduard Benes in the late Little Entente; of pernicious anemia resulting from tuberculosis; in exile, in Cannes, France...