Word: diplomats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pages of History. Father Molnar refers to his flock as mentally retarded and reactionary. "Hungarians," he said, "are always against something. Mindszenty was working on this theory to incite the people against the new democracy. He is a good and stubborn soldier. But he is a bad diplomat who does not know his history. How could he solve the world's ills by turning back the pages of history...
...political philosophy, Acheson, though he hesitated "very much to bore the committee," dug into a selection of the 100-odd speeches and statements he had delivered between 1939 and 1948. They were speeches of an experienced diplomat who had first been hopeful of friendly relations with a wartime ally, but had watched the deterioration of U.S.-Soviet relations with growing concern, and had been among the first officials to sound the alarm. Said Acheson: "The things I read about my being an appeaser are so incredible that I cannot believe that even disinterested malevolence could think them...
Died. Baron Pompeo Aloisi, 73, onetime bigwig Italian diplomat, who, as a delegate to the League of Nations, was Mussolini's chief apologist for the invasion of Ethiopia; in Rome...
...Eisenhower's brilliant wartime chief of staff, Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith switched smoothly to the civilian brand in 1946 as U.S. ambassador to Moscow. There, for almost three years, he has nursed his ulcers and plugged determinedly away at the nation's toughest, loneliest diplomatic post. But in the stiffening deadlock of U.S.-Soviet relations there has been little that any diplomat could do other than make futile trips to the Kremlin...
...Night of Feb. 19. His first serious suspect was Henry Sanford, for whom Sanford, Fla. was named. Sanford was a wealthy diplomat who made a practice of holding small dinners for important political figures in Washington. When Professor Anderson found the Sanford papers in the Connecticut Historical Society, he thought that his search was over; then he found letters proving that Sanford had been in Washington...