Word: ambassador
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...Broken Chain. The U.S. and China held 134 ambassador-level talks, first in Geneva and later in Warsaw, between 1955 and 1968. Two years ago, in the throes of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution, Peking broke the chain of meetings. No further direct contacts between the two powers took place until U.S. Ambassador to Poland Walter Stoessel, a veteran Foreign Service officer, chatted with a Chinese diplomat at a Warsaw reception six weeks ago. Later, he talked for an hour with Chargé d'Affaires Lei Yang at the Chinese embassy...
...diplomat's trade, euphemism is the rule and waspish apothegms a rarity. The late Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador to Washington from 1930 through 1939, turns out to have been one of those uncommon envoys with a sharply pointed pencil. He was a career diplomat, the fifth son of an earl; he was first married to the daughter of a U.S. Senator, and after her death wed another American. In his last Washington years, he worked to strengthen Anglo-American ties as World War II approached...
Last month, for example, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko personally received Bonn's ambassador in Moscow for preliminary talks about full-scale negotiations. Many diplomats took Gromyko's presence to mean that the Kremlin had suddenly decided to put a new emphasis on relations with West Germany. That may yet prove to be the case, but it is also true that Gromyko was the only seasoned senior negotiator available in Moscow at the time. First Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov, who ordinarily handles Western European affairs, was preoccupied with negotiations with Peking, where he returned last week after...
Partly to smooth over such difficulties and partly to give his organization cachet, Cornfeld has recruited numerous political celebrities and other famous names as I.O.S. executives. Former U.N. Ambassador James Roosevelt, F.D.R.'s son, deals with foreign governments. Erich Mende, former Vice Chancellor of West Germany and onetime leader of the country's third largest political party, runs I.O.S. operations in Germany (where the company makes nearly 40% of its sales). Sweden's Count Carl Johan Bernadotte and Britain's Sir Eric Wyndham White, the former head of tariff-writing GATT, sit on I.O.S...
...Ambassador's Journal, Galbraith...