Word: diplomats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replace punctilious career diplomat Jefferson Caffery, 63, as ambassador to France, Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson wanted a man who was enough of an economist to keep abreast of French financial crises, enough of a diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce...
Bringing Home the Bacon. But the great events of this volume-the fall of France, Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain-do not alone present a complete portrait of Churchill himself. To Churchill the diplomat, the high-spirited artist of war, the politician who understood himself and thus understood the British people, must be added Churchill the tireless observer of small things, the accountant who knows that pennies make the pound...
...country. If pact and handout were wrapped too tightly together, Acheson apparently feared, Congress might reject both. So Dean Acheson set out to prove that arms and the pact logically belonged together-but were really separate. It took some twisting of the tongue, even for a practiced diplomat...
Yugoslavia exhibited the greatest, weirdest political show on earth: a cold war between two Communist police states. Last week a European diplomat, just returned from Belgrade, described...
...Robert Woods Bliss is heiress of the Castoria millions ("Children Cry For It"), and of an unassailably long Washington ancestry. She and her ex-diplomat husband quietly entertain a small, gilt-edged group of diplomats, officials and cave dwellers in their Georgetown home...