Word: protocolic
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...Brandt visit had some lighter moments. The Chancellor slipped off for some fishing aboard the U.S. Naval Academy commandant's yacht. The only catch was a small rockfish landed by a U.S. protocol officer. The next day, when Nixon received him at the White House, Brandt complained: "There is only one fish in the Chesapeake Bay." Nixon, who had delivered his traumatic Watergate speech the night before, was in an effusive, bantering mood. To the delight of photographers, Nixon took Brandt by the arm several times to change his position "so we will have very good pictures...
...relatively minor but symbolic matter of protocol, Whitlam apparently got Elizabeth to agree that henceforth the credentials of Australian ambassadors need not be sent halfway around the world for her signature but can be signed in Canberra by her Governor General. The Prime Minister also got from Whitehall an agreement in principle that Australia's own High Court should replace Britain's Privy Council as the last court of appeal for Australian litigants. There was somewhat less harmony on a more substantive issue -namely, that Britain should join Australia and New Zealand in opposing further French nuclear tests...
Pale and unsmiling, the diminutive Mao-suited official walked into the grand banquet hall of Peking's Great Hall of the People one day last week. He paused uncertainly at the door, but protocol officials hustled him over to stand in line with Premier Chou En-lai and greet guests at a dinner honoring Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk. In this low-key style, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, now 69, returned from the shadows that have enveloped him since 1966, when he was purged along with Chief of State Liu Shao...
Britain ratified a separate protocol in 1969, pledging not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons in the treaty territory; the U.S. ratified the same protocol in 1971. The Soviets and Chinese have so far ignored invitations to add their signatures. Since France has neither military bases nor obvious political ambitions in Latin America, its decision to join the treaty is mainly symbolic...
...choice of topics does as much as his prose style to contribute to the tone of the collection. Funeral customs, diplomatic protocol, astrology as a historical phenomenon, and the treatment of children are all bizarre little sidepaths that serious scholars rarely explore, yet their unusualness makes it easy to sustain interest in them for a few pages. His thumbnail sketches of those sorts of topics illustrate an implicit thesis about the way things were in Victorian England, or wherever. These essays don't prove his thesis, but they flesh it out, and they are, as a group, a remarkably pleasant...