Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor of Berlin, Willy Brandt has duties no ordinary mayor has-protocol responsibilities as the head of a quasi-autonomous state, and the responsibility for liaison with Allied commanders in the city. He also has a unique set of problems. According to East German officials, some 48 Western "terror," espionage and propaganda organizations operate out of West Berlin. Inevitably, their endless, shadowy war with the 60,000 Communist agents operating out of East Germany creates clamorous incidents in West Berlin, exposes the city to endless complaints from Moscow. Willy, like most Berliners, has come to regard some of the underground...
...newsmen had finished their polite, respectful questions, and with punctilious protocol one of the visiting Shah's aides closed the press conference at the Iranian ambassador's house in London: "Thank you very much, Your Majesty...
Through the broad streets of Geneva early this week surged the innumerable supporting troops of diplomacy-reporters, secretaries, protocol officers, and the conspicuously invisible agents of the U.S. State Department's security service, Britain's Special Branch and the Soviet MGB. In villas scattered through the city's parklike suburbs, the foreign ministers of Britain, France, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. took one last look at their briefs. In the ornate League of Nations Council Chamber overlooking the turquoise waters of Lake of Geneva and facing snow-capped Mont Blanc, workmen shuffled the furniture about. The great...
...sees as how he sees them. After his formal audience with the Swiss Guards, the Pope settled down with them for a cup of tea. "We see each other every day," he said, "but we never get a chance to talk-you because of discipline and I because of protocol. It's about time we got better acquainted." He told the motorcycle cops: "Frankly, I would rather do without you. But you and I are both subject to rules and regulations, and we must try to make the best...
Pope John's love of living sometimes dismays Vatican sticklers for protocol, as in his fondness for inviting old friends to dinner. "I tried to keep to the tradition," he told one intimate, "but it didn't last eight days. After all, nothing in Scripture says that I have to eat alone." The ultra-conservative editors of the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano have even been known to censor what they consider an unseemly papal frankness. When, on a precedent-breaking visit to Rome's Queen of Heaven prison, John told the jailbirds that...