Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomat's words must have no relations to actions-otherwise what kind of diplomat is he?" Joseph Stalin once wrote. "Good words are a mask for the concealment of bad deeds. Sincere diplomats are no more possible than dry water or wooden iron...
Carmona's opponent is an 81-year-old democratic liberal, Norton de Mattos, a retired general and diplomat who reads treatises on topography and mathematics for relaxation. He heads a forlorn rabble of socialists, democrats, Communists, and some monarchists...
Franz von Papen, 69, Hitler's super-sleek diplomat, who has served two years of an eight-year rap as a major Nazi offender, was really only a second-class Nazi, a German appeals court decided. A fine of 30,000 marks ($9,000) still stood, and he got a solemn warning not to take part in any activities that might mold public opinion. Then the court ordered the return of his confiscated property and his release from prison...
Born. To Benjamin Welles, 32, elder son of ex-Diplomat Sumner Welles and New York Timesman in the London bureau, and Cynthia Monteith Welles, 31, ex-wife of Lord Beaverbrook's son Max: their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: Serena. Weight...
...lost around $3,000,000 last year and needed something like a miracle man to make it pay off. As a start, Damon planned to spend most of his first year "traveling T.W.A. routes from San Francisco to Bombay, assimilating all the important information" about the line. An unruffled diplomat, Damon also seemed a likely man to get along with eccentric, erratic Howard Hughes...