Word: discreeter
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...this delicate juncture Ambassador Troyanovsky as never before needed to play the discreet diplomat. There are some things an ambassador simply does not say. Ambassador Troyanovsky said nearly all of them in an address last week to the Society of Old Bolsheviks, Moscow's most select club. The S. O. B. had invited him to submit to questions and give them the low-down on President Roosevelt and the New Deal. "Exactly why do you think President Roosevelt recognized the Soviet Union?" asked an Old Bolshevik...
...with the A. E. F. to reach this topnotch position in the organization. He entered Legion activities when he became a founder of Galileo Post in his hometown. A vice president of Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association, president of Pacific National Fire Insurance Co., Commander Belgrano kept discreet silence when the Bonus ruckus was shrilling about him, pledged a non-political administration...
...great legend of King George today is that Britain's markedly successful National Government sprang from a discreet stroke of statecraft by His Majesty. Three years ago George V is supposed to have persuaded James Ramsay MacDonald to desert his Labor colleagues of a lifetime and become the vote-getting figurehead of the so-called National (but in fact Conservative) Government (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Always the King is represented as a tower of moral strength, aiding his conscience-torn Scottish Prime Minister to decide between Labor and the Nation. Last week this pristine royal legend was rudely spattered...
Ever the conciliatory, constructive statesman. Ambassador Davis called the London naval situation last week "difficult but far from hopeless.'' Though each of the Big Three had aired its views to the Press and made discreet private contacts they will not begin to negotiate officially until this week, will try to rough out a groundwork permitting France and Italy to join the London parleys by Christmas, with a view to calling the 1935 Naval Conference early next spring...
...these efforts to persuade the World Jewish Conference to be a trifle discreet were utterly wasted last week. The tub-thumpers in Geneva projected themselves into world headlines with a ringing re- affirmation of Jewish boycott efforts against Germany, then proceeded to skate extremely near to attempting to form a Super-Government of World Jewry...