Word: diplomatized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Secretary of State went through the unavoidable, formal round of public posturings. But he did his real work in the corridors and rooms of Havana's swelegant Hotel Nacional de Cuba. Astonished was many a high-hat diplomat when a grey, modest, smiling-eyed gentleman in a slack lounge suit wandered in, took off his coat, sprawled in a chair, talked as though Secretaries of State and Foreign Ministers were human beings. With the same tactics in 1933, Cordell Hull had saved the International Conference of American States at Montevideo from complete collapse. Until he exhausted...
...Plans Division. Its job: making plans for use of the Army in war, making estimates of the size of the Army needed for any wartime situation. W. P. D.'s top man is longheaded, ambassadorial George Veazey Strong. Like Sherman Miles, he has been as much an Army diplomat as a field soldier, is as much at home in Geneva as he is in Washington. Cavalryman to start, George Strong fought Ute Indians in the West, Moros in the Philippines, went to Tokyo in 1908 as military attache...
...Japanese advanced on many fronts. Short, stout, bald, jolly Vice Foreign Minister Masayuki Tani, whom the Japanese like to call a "French-type diplomat," and short, popeyed, acid Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma, whose diplomacy smacks more of the German, had much to say after each advance...
James H. R. Cromwell, no diplomat, was Minister to Canada for 142 days. Twenty of these passed before he took office; of the remainder, it was said that nothing could break the bonds of U. S.-Canadian friendship. Installed in the Legation at Ottawa, Mr. Cromwell announced that he would soon resign to run for Senator of New Jersey-a declaration which aroused more enthusiasm in the State Department than had amateurish Mr. Cromwell's passionate but undiplomatic denunciations of Hitler...
Washingtonians could set their clocks by Diplomat Moffat's daily walk to the State Department. A fast walker, he first strides three-quarters of a mile to the swank Metropolitan Club, arriving at 8:20, reads the morning papers for exactly one-half hour, leaves, walks in his office door at 8:55. Only hard work and a good, long record (he joined the Foreign Service in 1919, has served at Warsaw, Berne, Tokyo, Constantinople, Sydney) prevent Jay Pierrepont Moffat from being a lady novelist's version of the ideal diplomat: he goes out socially a great deal...