Word: diplomats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Comrade Suritz is a seasoned Soviet diplomat. He once headed a Soviet mission to Afghanistan, where he greased Afghan palms so well that that mountainous kingdom came to lean toward the Soviet Union more than toward Great Britain. Later he laid the foundation for a long Turkish-Russian friendship, and still later, Jew though he is, he became the Soviet Ambassador to the Jew-baiting Nazis. Adolf Hitler treated him with all honor, however, and modified the famed anti-Semitic Nürnberg laws so that the Ambassador could keep Aryan scrub women and maids under 45 years...
Pessimistic was Diplomat Kennedy: ". . . Continuation of the war will be catastrophic for the political, social and economic life of the peoples of the world." Prophetic was Politician Kennedy: "The problems that are going to affect the people of the United States ... are already so great and becoming greater by the war that they should be handled by a man it won't take two years to educate...
...Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armaments and after a grand tour of the East as Consul-General-at-Large, Nelson Johnson was called home again. On his way he stopped in Japan, just after the great Yokohama earthquake of 1923. Cardinal requisite of any foreign service diplomat is that he shall be able to write clearly, vividly, movingly. Of the earthquake Nelson Johnson reported: "I found Yokohama in ruins. I left it busy removing the last vestiges of the confused masses of brick, a city of small galvanized iron shops and houses looking for all the world like...
...round-the-world tour. The Becks and the Johnsons had been friends for three generations, so Jane and her brother stayed at the Embassy mansion. The guests stayed on & on, but since that is the way of Peking, no one was surprised -till one day the bachelor diplomat quietly told his friends that he and Jane Beck would be married the next...
...quality which above all others makes Nelson Johnson a really good diplomat is the ease with which he translates his corny U. S. traits into polished Chinese formulas. When he sits down at an important conference with Chinese statesmen, he begins by saying (in Chinese): "Well, boys, have I told you the one about the traveling salesman and the old farmer?" He can sing Chinese songs, too, and play the pipa (lute...