Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bright Sweater. Cheke's pamphlet turns around the ordeals of Mr. John Bull, the Third Secretary to Sir Henry Sealingwax, ambassador to mythical Mauretania. To the old ambassadors John Bull is typical of Britain's new crop of appointees now at their first posts abroad. Long on economics, finance and social problems, often with brilliant war records, they are, by such standards as Cheke's, still social roughnecks...
...Sir Henry Sealingwax's reception calls for young Bull's first big show of tact. "One of his chief duties is to be affable to bores." Each official party has important guests "devoid of social graces and who stand around in dreary isolation." Nothing, Cheke affirms, is worse than "dreary individuals standing in gloomy and solitary silence." To save the reception England expects young John Bull to find his tongue and chat...
...embarrassed British Foreign Service. In Washington, the British embassy hastily checked its Chekes safely behind locked doors; in London, Ernest Bevin was "very cross about it," and Marcus Cheke let it be known he was "most angry." As the matter closed, a last-minute addendum was casually spoken by Sir George William Rendel, the British ambassador to Belgium. "If you serve vodka to the gentleman you're trying to swindle," quipped Sir George, "he recovers his suspicions the next morning. But if you ply him with Scotch, he doesn't get up his guard again for three...