Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Portents & Protocol. The West listened with an uneasiness that was not yet dismay. The Russians, though they said it in friendly fashion, were clearly indicating that they have no intention of discussing Germany until Adenauer goes to Moscow -or, perhaps, until Adenauer is dead...
Eisenhower, leaning on the protocol fact that he is a head of state while the other Big Three are only chiefs of government, issued invitations, but accepted none from the other three. The first night, he had the Russians to dinner, greeting them with Mamie on the stone terrace overlooking the lake. He chatted with Zhukov, after dinner surprised the Russian by producing two wedding presents for his daughter-a desk pen inscribed "From the President of the United States, July 1955," and a portable U.S. radio -which he had hastily ordered after he learned of the marriage that morning...
Maneuvering amid the personalities and protocol of sticky Washington last week was an open-faced, roundly smiling, improbable-looking man in a gaung baung (gauze turbanlike cap with side bow), ingyi (short-waisted, high-necked jacket) and longyi (skirt). Improbably, for a potentate from a faraway land, he came bearing thoughtful gifts: a pint of his blood for a U.S. hospital; a silver gong suspended between ivory elephant tusks for the President; a check for $5,000 for distressed families of G.I.'s killed or incapacitated in the liberation of his country, Burma, during World...
...Department of Agriculture and Benson's aides kept U Nu waiting too long (five minutes) for U Nu. "Tell them we'll see them some other time," politely said U Nu, and walked out. Gasped a State Department man, "If it had happened here, everyone in protocol would have been fired by now." Secretary Benson made an adroit recovery, speeding over to Blair House to apologize to U Nu, taking Mrs. Benson along. She was glad the incident happened, allowed Mrs. Benson diplomatically, "otherwise I would not have had the chance to meet the Prime Minister...
Although they obviously were chagrined to lose that 116-year-old Grand Challenge Cup, the Russians remembered their political protocol-even when they made their last-minute explanations. "Our boats-we think they came too late," said Manager Vladimir Muchmenko. "No, not too late, but late enough. But we would not blame the strikers, only the situation...