Word: cavendish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Currently the hottest spot in U.S.diplomacy is a stone-faced building in the heart of busy Belgrade, capital of Tito's Yugoslavia. From its shadowed rooms, lanky, sharp-featured Cavendish Cannon, 54, had done one of the cold war's outstanding jobs. He sniffed trouble in the air before the Tito Cominform split burst into the open, then begged his superiors to give Tito's government the encouragement and limited support it needed to keep the rebellion thriving, without buying Tito's own party line. But Cannon had worked himself into a state of exhaustion...
...Instrument. Since the U.S. had no veto power, all Cavendish Cannon could have done (and that might have been plenty) would have been to present the U.S.'s case loudly and firmly. He was not the man for that...
...very well for M. Krshihich (an artist and presumably a dreamer) to try to ward off evil by looking the other way; in practice, that method did not work. The U.S. was hopelessly licked in Belgrade because, instead of lighting into evil with fists flying, U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon tended to shrink, like the reticent lady of the statue, from Vishinsky...
...Cavendish Welles Cannon is one of the State Department's ablest, most diligent desk diplomats. A U.S. newsman once remarked that Cannon had the worried manner of a village postmaster who had mislaid the day's mail. Cannon kept insisting, in his almost inaudible voice, that the conference should be conducted on "technical" rather than political lines. The Communist majority rode roughshod over the contention...
That was the last real peep out of the Western powers. Soft-spoken U.S. Ambassador Cavendish Cannon could hardly be heard across the conference table...