Word: protocol
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...would take over Martinique. By cunning diplomacy on each side, by inexhaustibly ingenious tactics, the relations were prolonged again & again & again. Each time editors harrumphed: this is it. Each time one side or the other had managed to think of one more démarche, one more protocol, one more possible avenue of negotiation. Even the cutting off of food supplies had failed to shake Admiral Robert. For 35 months he had forced the U.S. to keep vigilant patrol over his domain. The 105 U.S. planes which had failed to reach France in 1940 had long since rusted into disuse...
...World War I, New York City's bouncy little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia was a ball of buna in the U.S. Air Service. From his base in Italy, he soared on bombing raids over the Alps, haggled with his superiors, smuggled steel out of Spain, cracked protocol like crockery...
...signers. This joy had been celebrated in too much vodka. "Stalin went up to the aged and diminutive Japanese Ambassador General, punched him rather hard on the shoulder with an 'ah ... ha'. . . . The Japanese Military Attache staggered up to the dapper and fastidious . . . Soviet Chief of Protocol and slapped him on the back. Matsuoka got the giggles and thought that the whole business was 'a genuine expression of Soviet friendship...
...another action Vichy neglected: it said nothing to its own Ambassador in Washington, blue-eyed, balding little Gaston Henry-Haye. The State Department waited for M. Henry-Haye to come after his passport, finally dispatched George T. Summerlin, Chief of the Division of Protocol, to the handsome, police-guarded French Embassy. For him to give the documents to the anxious, worried envoy took only a moment...
...most important call was at the Egyptian Palace: young King Farouk, waiving protocol, received his guest, still wearing the blue business suit, on the Moslem holy day. His message to King Farouk was doubtless like the one he hammered home everywhere: the Mideast must get on the Allied side of the fence and stay there because "the glory days of Nazi regime are ending; their high tide is reached, and shortly we will see it recede." Then Wendell Willkie went to the Egyptian battlefields, watched German bombers overhead, heard the explosion of German bombs, looked at burned-up tanks that...