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...hollow square of tables, each chief of government at an assigned side, flanked by his foreign minister and advisers. Eisenhower sat with his back to the big window overlooking Lake Geneva. To his left was France's Premier Faure. Opposite was Britain's Prime Minister Eden, famed diplomatist, epitome of the British faith in adjustments, not solutions. To his right sat the Russians, with Premier Bulganin flanked by Foreign Minister Molotov on one side. Party Boss Khrushchev on the other, all clothed with the respectability of gang leaders who never shoot anybody themselves...
Baron Konstantin von Neurath, fluent linguist and brilliant diplomatist, had suavely served the Weimar Republic as Foreign Minister, then without apparent twinge of conscience served Hitler. In 1941 he finally resigned as Hitler's "Protector" of Bohemia-Moravia, but by then he had gone too far; the verdict at Nürnberg in 1946 was: "For carrying out and assuming responsibility for the execution of the foreign policy of the Nazi conspirators, and authorizing, directing and taking part in war crimes and crimes against humanity-fifteen years' imprisonment...
...That artful diplomatist who has called every play at the U.N. this year-Jacob Malik. The machinations of what other man have affected the lives of so many people in the world...
Britain's ex-Diplomat Harold Nicolson is no rookie in the wars of peacemaking. Some of his best, best-known books (Portrait of a Diplomatist; Curzon: The Last Phase) are centered around World War I's Versailles Conference, to which Nicolson was a delegate. More recently, he has been giving British radio listeners a blow-by-blow account of 1946's Paris Peace Conference. Few readers of this timely, lucid study of post-Napoleonic peacemaking will be able to resist drawing analogies between then and now-which is just what Author Nicolson warns them not to overdo...
...permitted to become a question of party politics. But he suggested that the U.S. had not learned an equally important lesson: that the chances of founding such an organization were far greater if the foundations were laid before rather than after the end of the war. Said Diplomatist Sumner Welles : "The Moscow Declaration should have been inseparably linked to an additional declaration setting up an agency, representative of all the United Nations." "Stark Imperialism." Eloquently Welles warned against further delay in setting up a council of all the United Nations: isolationism, in its earlier form, he said, is dead...