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...Hoover did not charge last week. Instead he sent his most trusted diplomatist, Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, hotfooting to Paris to parley with Prime Minister Tardieu...
...good diplomatist must be a pinch-hitter. Pinch-hitting was what President Hoover wanted of Assistant Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr. when he sent him to bat last week as U. S. Ambassador to Japan. Mr. Castle was expected to make one hit and get back to home-plate as fast as possible. His appointment to Tokyo was only for the duration of the five-power naval conference in London. Before his departure, he will confer this week with the Japanese parley delegates passing through...
...Diplomatist Moffat, plump, pleasant, pompous, is no nobody. He is the socialite scion of the three venerable Manhattan families whose names he bears, a Harvard graduate, a son-in-law of U. S. Ambassador to Turkey Joseph Clark Grew. Succeeding Laura Harlan as social secretary to the White House in the Coolidge Administration, he held that delicate post until its duties were transferred to a division of protocol in the state department. Attaché Moffat's most important previous diplomatic work was with the U. S. Legation in Warsaw during Soviet Russia's brief attempt to conquer Poland...
Banker, violinist, politician, student, diplomatist, orator, composer, Charles Gates Dawes is also a lawyer. He practiced from 1887 to 1894, as neighbor and contemporary of William Jennings Bryan and John Joseph Pershing, in Lincoln, Nebr...
...diplomatist! ... As I know my own business best, I am going to try and do it in my own way. . . . Nobody needs to explain to me how to get along with the English! I have met a lot of unsolicited advice about that, but I resent advice about how to get along with the English. ... I have got something to say! What we want is a pact of complete friendship and trust [between Britain and the U. S.]. That is what I am trying to bring about...