Word: protocol
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...Politics of Oil. But the niceties of palace protocol were surface symptoms. Beneath them stirred the tides of history. As a well-read Iranian, the Shah doubtless recalled the words of the Arabian Poet Abul Ala al Ma'arri: "History is a poem in which the words change, but the rhythm recurs." For Iran the rhythm of history was almost metronomic...
...Court was an attempt to meet them. He bluntly said that the charter of the Nürnberg tribunal, completed three months after V-E day, was the ex-post-facto law on which the trials were based. He cited some precedents for the master charge (the unratified Geneva Protocol of 1924, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, various League of Nations declarations treated aggressive war as an international crime). But, with more courage than legal logic, Jackson faced the basic fact: "It may be said that this is new law, not authoritatively declared at the time they [the defendants...
...Government's Chief of Protocol poufed back. Coiffuring was as necessary as barbering. Who was Jules to scorn such distinguished customers as Mme. Hèlène Lefaucheux, resistance organizer and Pars
...Jules still sputtered: "I have no room for lady constituents. If the Chief of Protocol wants to add a hairdressing salon to my barbershop, I will not oppose it. But it is foolishness...
...work in his father's Chilean copper mine. He was 21 when he saw 19-year-old Maria Humeres del Solar in the box of a Santiago theater. By managing to marry her six months later he set something of a record in overcoming the restrictive protocol of Latin courtship, and the lack of a common language. (Both now speak excellent Spanish and English.) Two of Braden's handiest assets in Latin America have been his greying senora's charm and judgment. The Bradens have five children, three grandchildren...