Word: soldier-diplomat
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Behind the ugly heat of radioed words, and the rounding up of youthful Cypriot firebrands, Britain's soldier-diplomat, Sir John Harding, continued negotiations with Cypriot Archbishop Makarios, spiritual shepherd and temporal leader (Ethnarch) of the Greek Cypriots. Begrudgingly, the British found themselves treating him like a head of state...
Died. Major General Frank Ross McCoy, 79, "America's soldier-diplomat," who became a troubleshooter for Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Hoover; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. West Pointer McCoy emerged from World War I a medal-covered brigadier. As competent in striped pants as in uniform, McCoy roamed the world on diplomatic missions for the White House, helped set up the Cuban and Philippine governments, fed the "starving Armenians" in 1919, ran Nicaraguan elections, wound up his long career in 1949, when he decided that four years on the Far Eastern Commission were "long enough for . . . that...
...Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission, was one of the first Indians to get into Sandhurst, Britain's West Point; he was the first Indian officer to command a brigade in World War II. "Thimmy" Thimayya, who won the D.S.O. against the Japanese, is perhaps the most promising soldier-diplomat in all India...
...Soldier-Diplomat Patrick J. Hurley, who recently made Oklahoma's Hall of Fame, landed in still another niche: the Denver Post's Hall of Fame, for his "outstanding leadership and success" as chairman of the Rocky Mountain Scrap Mobilization Committee...
...integrity and dignity of the big soldier-diplomat dominated the marble caucus room. George Marshall was, as always, firm but courteous, patient and persuasive. His flat monotone carried a note of determination...