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...cringing acceptance of the Kennan insult is outrageous. Since 1947 I have had a growing conviction that our State Department would sacrifice America before they would deviate from diplomatic protocol. How many lessons does our State Department need in order to recognize the fact that in dealing with the Soviets, Das Kapital is their bible and their book of protocol? It is foolish to use diplomatic niceties on a regime which recognizes none of the common usages of civilized society...
...world got set for Mossy's next move: kicking out the British chargé d'affaires. After all, some weeks before, the Iranian Foreign Ministry had borrowed from the British embassy library a book on the complicated protocol of severing diplomatic relations, and still had not returned the book. Soon it became clear that Mossadegh was stalling. He did not really want to break off diplomatic relations; he just hoped that the West (meaning the U.S.), shocked by his radio statement, would break down and come through with a good offer. It was the old Mossadegh game again...
Precedence and protocol were a constant, carking care to Queen Victoria's stiffly sensitive and none-too-popular Prince Albert, who complained that he was "only a husband and not the master in the house." His proper rank was not finally settled until four years before he died, when Parliament at last made him officially Prince Consort. Easygoing Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is better liked by his wife's subjects and less bothered by form. Nonetheless, next June's Coronation is less than nine months away, and he needed to be put in his proper place. Last...
...from being representative of American democracy in action, the [State] Department is a honeycomb of bureaucratic regimentation and protocol...
Queen Victoria. For most well-born Victorians, says Ponsonby, the Victorian era was a "serene, unhurried existence." For the old Queen's courtiers, it was a rat race. Protocol ruled, for example, that when the Queen took an airing in her pony chair she must meet nobody on the way, and as nobody in the household could foretell what route she intended to take, her stately advance over the royal gravel was marked by the incessant scuttling of courtiers racing for cover...