Word: diplomatically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. W. W. Yen (Yen Hunching), 73, Chinese elder statesman and onetime Prime Minister (1924-26) of the Republic of China; in Shanghai. After the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty by Sun Yat-sen in 1911, frail, U.S.-educated Dr. Yen served as a diplomat to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. He came out of retirement last year to head an unofficial four-man mission to Peking which tried unsuccessfully to make peace with the Communists...
Last week Popovich, now 36, arrived in the U.S. with pretty wife Vjera, to take up his new job as ambassador from Communist Dictator Tito. Dressed to the nines, like an oldtime bourgeois-diplomat swell, Popovich portentously told reporters in New York: "I am confident, and so is my government, that we will meet [in the U.S.] with ever-increasing understanding and ever greater assistance." He criticized "bloc systems" in the world, charging with lofty impartiality that they led to war-"from whichever side the blocs originate...
What makes Novelist Romain Gary's pessimism significant is that it is not just the outpouring of a maladjusted highbrow. Gary is no Sartre watching life as a spectator. A French career diplomat now stationed in Bern, Switzerland, he has behind him a solid record as a fighter pilot in the French Air Force, which he joined in 1938. His novel, written in 1947-48, shows the extent to which many in Europe had lost heart, and lost their grip on the beliefs that made Europe great, in the fifth decade of the 20th Century...
...overestimate the boche bogey, had been reluctant about Franco-German economic integration because they were afraid that, without the British in on the deal to help outbalance German productive capacity, French industry would be swamped by Germany. But the French government had overcome this fear. Said one French diplomat last week: "In 1936, when Hitler occupied the Rhineland, we refrained from moving in because the British wouldn't come with us. Afterwards, the British told us, 'If you had marched, we should have been obliged to come with you.' Now it is 1936 again, but this time...
...reporters told him that Chileans hadn't liked all the U.S. publicity about his samba dancing and fondness for late parties. "Ah," explained González with the unruffled air of a well-traveled diplomat, "in America the press gives great importance to private life; here the newspapers wouldn't even have noticed...