Word: talleyrand
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...Timothy Pickering, a Massachusetts Federalist and former Secretary of State, who in 1810 divulged on the Senate floor a carefully guarded secret message from France's Foreign Minister Talleyrand, weakening the U.S. case in the dispute over ownership of western Florida...
...bureaucracy functioning and the leadership together, but they are in trouble. Mao has reportedly begun to speak out against s "second line" of opponents more insidious than the first line. T'ao was led through the streets of Peking in disgrace last week and even Chou, an urbane, indestructable Talleyrand, has been occasionally criticized in the Red Guard posters plastering the walls of Peking...
...first-rate job-definitely ept, ane and ert. Sending Mr. Bing a bottle of Moselle as a preliminary shipboard softener-upper was a touch of genius. Champagne would have been all right for some people, but for Bing a bit gauche and outre. In the words of Talleyrand (almost): He is intolerable, but that is his only fault...
...French are gone from Southeast Asia, but there's a lingering trace of Talleyrand in Vu Van Thai, South Vietnam's ambassador to the U.S. Just as Talleyrand spent the Terror safely secluded in the United States, so did Thai work as a U.N. staff member in Togo, during the seven coups and dozen reshuffles since the fall of Diem. Thai's return suggests that he has mastered Talleyrand's chameleon-like ability to shift positions and survive...
...coronet in complications. His invasion of England, announced 18 months earlier, had bogged down on the beaches near Boulogne. His fleet floundered useless, bottled up by the British at Ferrol. His treasury lay empty, and all across Europe his prestige was ebbing. On Aug. 13, Talleyrand brought word that Austria and Russia were hastening to mount a massive attack on France...