Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belief & Practice The relations between church and state in Poland are distilled in an anecdote, current on the Continent, about the visit of Queen Mother Elisabeth of the Belgians to Warsaw last year, before the cleavage between Russian and Polish Communism became official. When the Foreign Office protocol officer assigned to the Queen accompanied her to Roman Catholic services on Sunday, she asked him if he was a Catholic. "Believing, Your Majesty, but not practicing," he answered with some embarrassment...
Main features to break the monotony are glass corridors and a three-story, sheet-glass grand entrance for protocol occasions. The roof will be reinforced for helicopter landing; the basement will house an 800-car garage. Inside, the building freezes the State Department's pyramidal hierarchy in concrete, with the Secretary's office, surrounded by his immediate aides on the seventh floor, lesser departments pushed lower and lower toward the first. Windows are rationed on prestige basis. To pump around the lifeblood of memorandums there are miles of pneumatic tubing...
...Stalin finally did it in. Poland had a non-aggression pact with Russia dating from 1929, and after Hitler's rise it contracted alliances with the West and signed a ten-year nonaggression pact with Germany. But in 1939 Molotov and Hitler got together, signed a secret protocol arranging to attack Poland simultaneously from both sides and to partition it out of existence. After a 26-day fight, Poland was no more. Said Molotov: "Nothing is left of that monstrous bastard, the Versailles Treaty...
...most capitals only satellite diplomats, a few neutralists, some Egyptians turned up-and wherever he appeared, the loneliest man was the Hungarian, shunned and shunning. "I hope they choke on their caviar!" said a demonstrator outside the Russian embassy in Stockholm. A Finnish protocol officer, required to attend in Helsinki, insisted: "I'm not thirsty. I'm not hungry." A pamphlet distributed by students outside the Russian embassy in Washington taunted: "Try our new cocktail . . . freshly mixed in Hungary. It's spiced with children's tears and blood...
...snarled by a Russian veto or by an endless debate, indicated that he might accept it as a device for keeping "moral pressure" on the Egyptian dictator. But the search for some formula that might break the deadlock went feverishly on in Washington, where, without bothering about the sacred protocol of presenting credentials, France's newly arrived Ambassador Herve Alphand rushed from the airport to State Department consultations with Dulles. In Cairo the U.S.'s Loy Henderson, reportedly with the support of the Iranian and Ethiopian representatives, pressed Menzies for one more try at compromise with Nasser. After...