Word: diplomatized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suritz Non Grata. Nonfiction, but in some spots very tantalizing melodrama, was the affaire Suritz, which did nothing to detract from Allied-Russian tension. Since 1919 bulging, bearded Jacob Suritz has been No. 1 Soviet diplomat, with a brilliant record in Afghanistan, Turkey, Germany and League of Nations wrangles. He was for years the only Jew in Germany permitted to keep Aryan housemaids -by personal dispensation of the Führer. Ambassador Suritz was not "purged" when his intimate friend Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff fell from Joseph Stalin's favor, but few Bolsheviks close to a fallen bigwig survive...
...Mama cuts capers instead of crying into her pillow, and the capers get more & more farcical as the situations get more & more forced. But the play doesn't end as a farce. It ends as a fairy tale-with Mama, for no possible reason, bagging a great English diplomat...
...upon the outcome of the present war." The outcome Minister Cromwell hoped for, he made clear, was the victory of the Allies. Picturing himself as a sentry who "sees approaching a force which frankly and openly seeks to destroy," Jimmy thundered: "Upon this interpretation of my duties as a diplomat I am content to risk my official head. If I be wrong then let the executioner be summoned and wield his ax. Head chopping is just an old family custom with the Cromwells anyhow...
Cleveland's Russian-born Telephone Diplomat Abraham ("Abe") Pickus, maker of expensive long-distance calls to foreign statesmen on behalf of peace, cabled to Joseph Stalin: "GET WISE TO YOURSELF. TELL THE WORLD THAT RUSSIA WAS AND IS WILLING TO DISARM AND SETTLE ALL DISPUTES BY ARBITRATION. CALL A WORLD CONFERENCE. HITLER, MUSSOLINI, CHAMBERLAIN, DALADIER ARE SAVAGES. TRY TO BRING THEM TO THE TABLE WITH THE HELP OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. A. PICKUS...
Former Premier Paasikivi headed the un successful Finnish delegations to Moscow before war broke out. The Russians liked him, partly because he said publicly that he liked Stalin the man, partly because he talked back to Stalin the diplomat...