Word: diplomatized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the Allies did not want peace, Sweden's best bet was to get Germany interested. As her salesman she picked 75-year-old Sven Anders Hedin, explorer, adventurer, surveyor, mapmaker, Orientalist -but no professional diplomat. Happening to be in Berlin to thank Adolf Hitler for a decoration from the German Government, he called on and had a two-hour talk with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
...phrasemaker as the week wore on: "There is no reason for the Finnish Government to occupy itself with mere talk. Let those talk who like to talk." Across the Baltic in Stockholm, Dr. Juho Paasikivi was reported to be in Sweden, "in personal contact" with a Russian diplomat. This was big news, if true...
...night last week a tall, tired, impassive U. S. diplomat, whose habitual uncommunicativeness was intensified by the fact that he had a cold, got to the Stazione Termini in Rome and went at once to his private car. One last Italian functionary arrived to bid him farewell. Then Sumner Welles, U. S. Under Secretary of State, in Europe on a special mission for President Roosevelt, turned in, although his train did not leave until...
...Route. A private car supplied by the German Government. Inside, a crack German photographer who once accompanied Ribbentrop to Moscow, a suave German diplomat who once served in Washington. Also, elaborate trays of hors d'oeuvres, dinner of soup, roast chicken, vegetables, stewed fruit, coffee, and stout German protestations that such was the regular fare. In the U. S. party, enigmatic, icy, shiny-domed Sumner Welles; black-haired, jovial Chief of the European Affairs Division and crack career Diplomat Jay Pierrepont Moffat; quiet Lucius Hartwell Johnson, onetime Welles secretary newly recruited for this trip. Lights were bright behind...
...uncritical of his distinguished predecessor as the predecessor was of Spain is Historian Claude Gernade Bowers (Jefferson and Hamilton), another writing diplomat, who represented the U. S. in Spain from 1933 to 1939. One of the first public functions Ambassador Bowers attended was a three-day fiesta in Granada in honor of Irving. For his own diversion, Ambassador Bowers later followed the trail of Irving's Spanish travels, dug into embassy archives and the files of the Ministry of State to compose a sedately romantic record of a perennially romantic American...