Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diem was not bluffing. He turned over the job of Vietnamizing the Chinese to steely Vice President Nguyen Ngoc Tho. To both Diem and the Vice President the problem was simple and urgent. "There is no time for diplomacy or protocol.'' said one high official last week. "We are in a great hurry. The President himself demanded that the Chinese be Vietnamized 'before...
...Russian intervention to seek refuge, lives in a two-room apartment, gets his meals from the legation kitchen, works on his memoirs and takes infrequent strolls in a gloomy little patio in the legation compound. Though the legation keeps him supplied with newspapers (including the Paris Herald Tribune), the protocol of diplomatic refuge forbids him to receive or send letters or to use the telephone...
...France, whose career stretched over half a century, paralleled the Third Republic; in Lyon. Elected mayor of Lyon at 33, a Senator at 40, witty, erudite, pipe-puffing Herriot became a Senate rival to the fiery Georges Clemenceau; with British Socialist and Visionary Ramsay MacDonald, introduced the "Geneva Protocol" into the League of Nations, a first international attempt to outlaw aggression; canceled (1932) the German reparations agreements and plunged France soon after into such deep financial troubles that despite his efforts France repudiated its U.S. debts. He irresolutely stuck to Marshal Petain's Cabinet in 1940, but two years...
Sweeping across African skies in his DC-6B, Richard Nixon got the word that protocol would demand top hat. cutaway and striped trousers at the next stop of his African good-will tour in Liberia. Thus, when the plane landed (with one ailing engine), the Vice President of the U.S., already sweltering in his formal attire, and his summer-clad wife debarked into sizzling sunshine, shook hands all around. After the greetings they stepped quickly to an air-conditioned Cadillac for the 50-mile trip to the capital of Monrovia. The new comfort did not last...
Colombia's Foreign Minister had earlier announced that the talks would "go a little beyond mere protocol," but if the strongmen made any agreement, they did not announce it. There is no political tension between the countries. Regardless of what they said, by merely meeting, the Presidents affirmed what every dictator who is trying to keep the lid on likes to know: the flanking nation is in understanding hands. "We are both military men," said Rojas Pinilla later. "We have the same problems and the same "enemies...