Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain chose to replace him was lean, ascetic Sir Oliver Shewell Franks, 43, a philosopher-turned-economist who was born in the year that Inverchapel first headed into the foreign service. No conventional diplomat, Sir Oliver is one of the little group of keen-minded young Oxford dons who rocketed to prominence in wartime government service. He is an emotionless factfinder who has been described as the most unneurotic man in Britain...
Less Medal-Pinning. Though the appointment had been in the works for weeks, most Britons were taken somewhat by surprise. Sir Oliver and his wife are so little inclined to the social side of diplomacy that an acquaintance once remarked of their infrequent parties: "One always has to break the ice-and when one does, one finds a lot of very cold water underneath...
...with the inauguration of the Marshall Plan, His Majesty's Ambassador would be less concerned with the traditional medal-pinning and speechmaking of diplomacy, and more with the facts & figures of economic life which Inverchapel had neither the training nor the inclination to tackle. For that role, Sir Oliver fitted Britain's specifications...
...head of Britain's mission to the Paris conference last summer, Sir Oliver has a perfect understanding of the Marshall Plan from the European perspective. As Europe's representative in Washington for further talks last fall, he is equally equipped to interpret the U.S. point of view...