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Other experts of pomp and protocol were no less worried at the thought of a rank clash between a nation limited to republican symbols and one which could always bring crown and scepter to the hierarchal front...
Vice President Larco Herrera is a famous and hilarious character in Peruvian politics. His appearance has been compared to that of a brunette turkey in a high stiff collar. A stickler for rigid protocol, he has sometimes been forced to maintain a multiple personality. During a period of political stress he was simultaneously Minister of Foreign Relations and Minister of Finance. Peruvians say he would write a formal note: "Rafael Larco Herrera, Minister of Foreign Relations of Peru, presents his respects to Mr. Minister of Finance, for the outstanding work he is performing." Next day would come the equally formal...
They were almost more angry about method than money. The Brotherhoods are the orderly conservatives of U.S. unionism, with a long tradition of protocol in wage negotiations. Their pleas for a wage boost had been shunted about for more than a year. They had spent 45 years building their framework of bargaining, only to have Franklin Roosevelt personally take over their troubles a day before they were to argue their case before their long-established National Mediation Board. To the three holdout unions (who made clear that they had only "postponed" their strike), this was "changing the rules...
Navy's Pride, Navy's Woe. Seabees are a rough & ready outfit, hardboiled, hard-driving ex-civilians who sneer at protocol and red tape and are always taking short cuts instead of "going through channels." They have had their tiffs with the always proper Navy. Stevedores, handling all sorts of supplies for the fighting forces, sometimes cut in on such items as new shoes, jackets, a case or two of Coke. Proud of the work they are doing, the Seabees have sometimes blown their horn too brassily for regular Navy ears. But they have proved both to Army...
Right now the one country that fits the specifications of the protocol-and fits them like the velvet glove on an iron fist -is Poland. But diplomatic relations between Russia and the Polish Goyernment in Exile have been suspended for months, and neither side seems keen to renew them. Last week the Polish Cabinet called a meeting to discuss the situation, then called it off when Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk was bedded with the flu. Polish press comment took the general line that Poland would be glad to join up, provided the Russians would guarantee Poland's pre-1939 borders...