Word: diplomatized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deprived of French citizenship was Alexis Léger ("greatest living diplomat"), onetime Permanent Secretary General in the Foreign Ministry, reputedly the "brains" behind French foreign policy from 1933 until ousted by Reynaud in May 1940. His fame as a surrealist poet was also in eclipse because surrealism is frowned upon in the stern New Order...
...home, affairs went less well. His father and mother eventually separated. His father wanted Dale to be a chemical engineer, his mother, a diplomat. Three years ago Dale entered Harvard. To please his mother, he concentrated on history the first year; second year, to please his father, he majored in chemistry. Third year, he pleased himself, concentrated on comparative philology-because he had always wanted to be a linguist...
Died. Camille Barrère, 89, French diplomat; in Paris. Grandson of Bertrand Barrère, famed editor-politician of the First French Republic, he was for 32 years France's Ambassador at Rome, was credited with winning Italy over from the Triple Alliance to the Triple Entente in World...
Editor of the Courier-Journal since last January is lanky, solemn Herbert Agar, 43, onetime diplomat, novelist, critic, historian. For the last six months the Courier-Journal has been a fiery advocate of aid to Britain. Editor Agar was one of 30 U. S. citizens who announced last June that they were in favor of immediate war on Germany...
...democracies see what we have lost in money and life and human dignity by not sticking together, we will start our own counterrevolution to unite the world." He had been one of the last survivors in a trench at Verdun. " 'Since that day,' the little grey-haired diplomat said, 'I have had my motto: . . . There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them...