Word: protocols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This two-way treaty nevertheless has room to grow in. A special protocol provides for future signature by any victim of German aggression which borders on either Czechoslovakia or Russia. A liberal interpretation of the aggression clause might qualify a free and reconstituted Austria for membership, and both Russians and Czechs unquestionably would like to tie up Austria as another curb on German militarism...
Right now the one country that fits the specifications of the protocol-and fits them like the velvet glove on an iron fist -is Poland. But diplomatic relations between Russia and the Polish Goyernment in Exile have been suspended for months, and neither side seems keen to renew them. Last week the Polish Cabinet called a meeting to discuss the situation, then called it off when Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk was bedded with the flu. Polish press comment took the general line that Poland would be glad to join up, provided the Russians would guarantee Poland's pre-1939 borders...
...littered with the bones of men who have opposed Cordell Hull; that the old Tennessean feuder works quietly and cautiously but he always gets his man. That man is anyone who tries to run any part of foreign policy while the State Department is still around. Ranked by protocol as No. 1 Cabinet officer, the Secretary of State normally bosses all U.S. dealings with foreign governments. His corps of deft protocol artists has never allowed a mere war agency to forget...
...Bolling Field last week, his squinting eyes focused on a shimmering collection of silver stars and gold braid. Generals and admirals were there in profusion to greet him on his arrival from North Africa-but nary a striped pants diplomat or even a State Department functionary on routine protocol...
...sergeant was in a spot. It would be dangerous to confess that he lacked power to deal for his country. It would be downright disastrous to try to explain the U.S. State Department to the chief. So the sergeant wrote this protocol...