Word: proconsular
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...They don't like his role in Central America, his proconsular, interventionist, pro-contra role as Ambassador in Honduras. They don't like his Viet Nam background and his national security, intelligence-community background. Nonetheless, it is possible that he'll become the first U.S. ambassador in many years to establish channels of communication with all sectors of the political spectrum, in which case he might even become a good ambassador...
...North Bohemian coal fields refused to report for work. Rumors of wholesale rioting drifted out of Poland. In Hungary, a new Premier tried to placate the people with a promise to pay more attention to the welfare of farmers and consumers. Nervously, the Soviet government ordered its ambassadors and proconsular in Washington, London, Paris and East Germany to come home to Moscow for a policy conference. And in the Far East, an opportunity to press Russia's Chinese allies had been frittered away in truce negotiations that led to the dangerous and demoralizing conflict between the U.S. and Syngman...
...corridors of the United Nations-whether in New York or Paris-have grown used to an untidy priest. He is tall and strikingly handsome. He has that reserved, proconsular look, the bony nose, the clear eyes, the careless hair that the British prefer for their archetype rather than the beery John Bull. His speech is slow and unemotional. He is never without a briefcase that bulges, like a refugee's pack, with badly duplicated memoranda and official reports. He is the Rev. Michael Scott; he has no official position, not even a parish. He can point to few positive...
...Atsugi airfield and into a veteran's dream of victory, the general was smiling. Behind him lay thousands of miles of ocean, the conquered Pacific which U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen had made an American lake. Before him lay the submission of a God-Emperor and proconsular rule over Japan. A man less wise than Douglas MacArthur might have thought that, at 65, he could relax and enjoy the fruits of hard-won victory...
...Cover) In Simla last week, 21 Indians and one Englishman struggled to solve one of the world's most vexatious problems - giving self-government to India. The Englishman bore the resounding proconsular title of His Excellency, Field Marshal the Right Honorable Viscount Wavell (rhymes with naval) of Cyrenaica and Winchester. It mattered little that the title of Viscount of Winchester was as exotic in Simla as the Maharaja of Patiala would be in Wapping Old Stairs. In Lord Wavell was embodied the military might and the political glory of one of the only three great powers to survive...
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