Word: farago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diplomats are not figures of fun to Journalist Ladislas Farago, a short, soft-spoken Hungarian. He wants the world to realize that diplomats are not "striped-pants people and cookie-pushers." To show the shirtsleeve tenor of the new diplomacy, he has launched a self-styled "international journal," Corps Diplomatique, a Washington fortnightly...
...Farago's first issue featured sober articles on U.N.'s Military Staff Committee, the plans to broaden Britain's traditionally upper-crust Foreign Office, and Russia's efforts to dominate civil aviation in Eastern Europe. But Corps Diplomatique still seems most at home in its social column, "Embassy Row," served up with heady whiffs of the old monde élégant: "The other day we met Baroness van Boetzelaer in what Milton called the best company: alone. . . . Emerson's wisdom that art teaches us manners and abolishes haste attains its perfect example...
...Farago defends diplomacy's "obsolescent" verbiage: "Diplomacy would lose much of its spell once stripped of the belle tournure of its nomenclature." Corps Diplomatique itself is no slouch at belle tournure. With scholarly assists from Longfellow, Goethe, Lord Cecil, Dr. Johnson, Sir Henry Wotton,* Rousseau, Burke, Schiller, Lenin, Lord Castlereagh and Bronson Alcott, it delivers itself of such pearls as: "The bores and the bored whom Byron-called the 'two mighty tribes of society,' are still around and about. But diplomats, who are the best society, now follow Ruskin's advice and keep...