Word: protocols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workers walked out briefly, then returned quietly and took up their tools again. Such was the troubled surface mood. But beneath the surface in Germany lay a deeper tension. It tightened suddenly last week when the British intercepted and published a detailed plan for churning Western Germany into riot-"Protocol M"-and pinned responsibility on the Belgrade Cominform...
...Dachshund Howled." "The coming winter," said Protocol M in a message for Red operatives, "will be the decisive period in the history of the German working class. . . . This battle is ... for starting positions for the final struggle. . . ." Then the language became more explicit. Communist cadres would foment hunger demonstrations among factory workers to disrupt production. Transport workers would be prodded to tie up food distribution. The timetable charted general strikes for March, when stocks of fall potatoes would be running out and the Ruhr would be at its hungriest. "The Soviet Union," ran the assurance, "can and will support this...
That night he was met in Washington's Union Station by handsome Stanley Woodward, White House and State Department chief of protocol, who welcomes every new chief of mission to Washington. Three days later Panyushkin presented his credentials to Acting Secretary of State Robert A. Lovett, conversed twelve minutes with him. Facing reporters once again, he was asked about the state of U.S.-Soviet relations. "It is a duty of all ambassadors," he replied, through an interpreter, "to try to have normal reciprocal relations...
...Truman kept smiling, but his wife was tuckered out. Gamely they had pumped more than 1,200 hands of foreign diplomats, U.S. Cabinet officers, Congressmen and their wives. Last week's annual White House diplomatic reception-the second since the war-was, as usual, peacock-splendid, stiff with protocol and hardly hilarious...
...Island, studied law at night and began pointing toward politics. In 1916 he ran for Congress as a Republican in a Tammany-controlled district, and amazed everyone except himself by getting elected. In World War I, he was a famous flyer, noted for his baggy uniform, his impatience of protocol and his patriotic speeches to huge Italian audiences...