Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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State Department protocol officers whispered that Baker was the host, after all, and pointed out that McCarran would have the honor of introducing Bayar. "I will not!" raged Pat. "I'll walk out first." The day was saved by Orhan Eralp, director general of Turkey's Foreign Ministry, who has been acting as President Bayar's interpreter. Eralp offered McCarran his seat, at Bayar's side, and perched on a stool behind the President. Pat agreed to stay. After the dinner President Bayar offered Mayor Baker his thanks and sympathies. Through the displaced interpreter, he said...
...give in to the Russians on all five disputed articles if only the conference could get to a peace treaty. Eden concurred, and Dulles was about to. That left no obstacle to signing the existing treaty. Flustered, Molotov retreated like an alarmed squid, throwing off black clouds of protests, protocol, and procedural double talk. "We must not get in a muddle," he protested...
...first time I ever heard of invited guests being told they could not follow the route to the presidential handshake . . . despite their correct evening attire, their long white gloves." Added Columnist Gordon later: "We might as well go in galoshes and tweed hats." The Battles of Protocol. A late-in-life blonde with the temper of a redhead, Columnist Gordon has fought many a skirmish before on the field of protocol...
Soon afterward, the ambassador returned to Cairo to voice his protest in person to Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi. Fawzi cut him short by pointing out that diplomatic protocol permits a non grata ambassador to see a Foreign Minister for only one reason-to say goodbye. Spluttering Tugay thereupon gave a farewell banquet to which not one Egyptian was invited. "You will not see me again in this dirty place," he told his guests...
Prasad with his cutaway and striped pants still in transit from the U.S. The honor of U.S. protocol was saved only by the fact that the obliging Italian ambassador happened to have the same suit size...