Word: protocol
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Piece of Advice. One of his toughest chores, he considers, was squiring Mrs. Roosevelt on a trip around Australia (it boosted morale but Eichelberger found the protocol terrific...
...Last week it struck back at Rumania. With undisguised relish, State notified the seven-member Rumanian diplomatic staff in Washington that henceforth they were to stay within a 35-mile radius of the capital, leave the area only by specific permission from the State Department's Chief of Protocol. Short of living in Red Rumania, there were few diplomatic punishments as bad as spending an unrelieved summer in the jungle heat of Washington...
...Korean army's best officers were once Japanese majors or lieutenants, and they still maintain Oriental protocol. All ranks are salute-happy-even sergeants rate the stiff-handed Japanese salute-and one battalion commander nostalgically keeps his old samurai sword hanging above his desk. Says Major General Byong Duk Choe, the Korean army's 36-year-old chief of staff: "For the first year my head still worked Japanese style. Now it has improved. The difference between the Japanese army and ours is like the difference between the American M-1 rifle and the clumsy Japanese Type...
Boyd needed that document and he was glad to go through tribal protocol to get it. As editor of the projected 52-volume Papers of Thomas Jefferson, he was reaching for everything that Thomas Jefferson ever wrote...
...Argentine diplomat blew a whistle in a New Delhi nightclub one evening last week. Results: most of the protocol officers in India's foreign office lost their Saturday afternoon holiday, armed policemen were called out to patrol the Imperial Hotel, a bearded Briton was booked for assault and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru found himself in the midst of an international incident...