Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Well, I really did feel I had every right in the world to resist the insipid protocol of turning my private life into the kind of running serial you find on bubble-gum wrappers. You can't just take sensitive parts of yourself and splatter them around like so much popcorn butter. Personal freedom has always been terribly important to me, and I have carried aloofness as a sort of banner to my sense of freedom...
...Protects treaty members in the area, as well as any other nations in the area willing to join later and unanimously accepted. A special protocol extends "a mantle of protection" to the Indo-China states of Laos, Cambodia and southern Viet Nam (which are debarred by the Geneva agreement from entering military commitments of their own). ¶ Provides, in the key Article IV, that in event of aggression, each signatory will regard an attack as endangering "its own peace and safety," and will undertake in that event "to meet the common danger in accordance with its constitutional processes...
...another, making the trip a family party, Cousin Frederika ordained that everything should be informal. Only 85-year-old Prince George of Greece (whose Bonaparte wife is one of France's leading psychoanalysts) was allowed to bring along a personal servant. Formal dress and court protocol were forbidden, and the seating arrangements for each day's meals were drawn democratically...
...exchange for sovereignty, Indonesian leaders agreed to place their country in a Netherlands-Indonesian Union, an arrangement which had the appearance of a common bond but was not one in fact. Last week even this tenuous tie was broken. In The Hague, Dutch and Indonesian delegates signed a protocol to end the political union. The Dutch took satisfaction in the fact that the economic links were left intact: they still have a billion-dollar investment in Indonesia...
...ring around Europe, which begins in Iceland and extends to Mount Ararat. So happy did Tito feel about the whole thing that at the party after the signing, he passed word around that he meant to celebrate until the small hours; anyone who was sleepy should forget about protocol and leave ahead...