Meanwhile he found occasion to cultivate friendships with Russians and foreign diplomats of all kinds.
The whole episode shows how individuals can control events when the masses can only become excited; kings and diplomats may still be the best mechanics to handle the complicated machinery on which peace or war depends.
Since then many a politician and writer has let fly his shafts at diplomacy, and fervent democrats have come to regard diplomats as veritable children of the devil.
We are catering to Japanese "sensitiveness" by sending diplomats with a list in the direction of Japan now.
Presently, I presume, we shall withdraw our diplomats from China as we did from Korea, and forget about it.
What Japan expected the powers to say other than just that is a matter fordiplomats to play with.
In international affairs, Japan has proved herself a match for the shrewdest diplomats of the Western world.
Something in his boyish face impressed the diplomats with the truth of the unbelievable statement just made.
You have had no training, it is true; yet you have already a weapon that old and tried diplomatsmight weep for.
All the foreign diplomats except the representatives of the United States and Colombia followed him on board the British warship, where he took refuge.
Orders from home compelled the Viceroy to stop his northward progress while the diplomats agreed on a division.
These diplomats who retail with an air of importance their bric-a-brac, seem to me much more ridiculous than a deputy of the second chamber draping himself in the feeling of his dignity.
Perhaps there will be something for the diplomats to do.
Warriors, lawgivers, and diplomats she had in abundance.
On the other hand, it was the actual occupation and holding of the country that gave our diplomats their vantage-ground.
None of our early diplomats did as much for the west as Jay, whom at one time the whole west hated and reviled; Mann Butler, whose politics are generally very sound, deserves especial credit for the justice he does the New Yorker.
When the monarchs who had concluded the Holy Alliance assembled, in the autumn of 1818, with their ministers and diplomatsat the Congress in Aix-la-Chapelle, Way grasped the occasion to submit to Alexander I.
You diplomats define honor differently at times from us.
Do you not see that our diplomats have still one more loop-hole in case they are pressed?
That is the difference between the better class of army and naval officers and diplomats and the rest of the Germans.
Finally the diplomats of the two powers came to an agreement and on the twelfth of April, 1779, a treaty of alliance was signed.
On the twenty-sixth of October, 1762, the British King expressed his approval of the latter proposal and urged the diplomats engaged in deliberating upon the subject speedily to draft a treaty.
In spite of the statement of the allied diplomats that the act was a purely local affair of no political importance, the Bolsheviki construed it as the beginning of the rumored Japanese invasion.
Reserved old diplomats were overwhelmed by their own enthusiasm; custom-bound soldiers forgot the hereditary caution and fell into the ways of the new leaders without a murmur.
The news threw the Dawsbergen diplomatsinto a deplorable state of uncertainty.
They too awaited the completion of those endless discussions among the diplomats at the Consulta, at the Ballplatz in Vienna, and wherever diplomacy is made in Berlin.
No wonder that the diplomats were weighing their words cautiously at the Consulta, also weighing with extreme fineness the quid pro quo they would accept as "compensation" from Austria for upsetting the Balkan situation.
The Triple Alliance was really doomed at its conception, because it was a trade made by a few politicians and diplomats in secret and never known in its terms to the people who were bound by it.
He was of all the diplomats I have ever known the one who best understood how to treat a correspondent.
Von Keudall was succeeded by his antithesis, a nullity in court and country of whom even his fellow diplomats could say nothing in praise.
Comoundouros ran with the diplomats and hunted with the populace,--I think he really meant to continue running and avoid hunting at any risk, but he talked on the other side.
Had the Turks been on the lookout they might have gobbled up the Prince and his diplomats without difficulty.
The crafty disposition of the diplomats was the never-failing second bow-string, in case the decision of arms should be doubtful; Savary's mission was a feint to gain time and information.
This time, Nansal knew better; they went right on developing their fleet while the diplomats of Sator argued.
Month followed month and months became years as the diplomats of Nansal tried, patiently and logically, to show the Satorians how unreasonable their demands were.
Although the Satorians had developed the horribly virulent strain of virus, they had not found a cure; the diplomats knew they were going to die.
As the reports of American diplomats from the war zone, freed from German censorship, were given to the public, the martial spirit of America grew apace.
Treaties are made with ink; they're broken with blood, and just as naturally and coolly as the Belgian diplomats used ink in signing the treaties with Germany so the Belgian soldiers have used their blood in trying to maintain the agreements.
Some of the diplomats discreetly sent donations with their cards.
I had a reception day every Tuesday, beginning in January, besides which there were various times at which we received diplomats and titled Belgians by themselves.
Having been duly advised by our Secretary of Legation of a respectable place to which diplomats "might" go, we sought it out and had happy little dinners together, forgetting our troubles for the time.
The Clerical party had been in power twenty-eight years when we were there, and the diplomats rarely came in contact with the members of any other faction.
So she passed up into the chancel, bowing to the altar and to the diplomats and the Ministers of State.
At table, the Grand Maitre sat opposite Her Royal Highness, the diplomats had the high seats, and the others down the table were Belgians of different degrees of distinction.
Not knowing the situation then--that war was bound to come--I remember my interest in the excitement of several diplomats who dined with us one evening.
These sad events closed the pleasant home of the Premier on Highland Terrace, greatly to the regret of the diplomats and others, who loved to congregate there.
The lace on ladies' dresses was torn by the trappings of the diplomats and officers, while terrapin and champagne were recklessly scattered.
Even the diplomats came out in force, and for once their gallery was full.
The diplomats gave champagne, but it was seldom seen except at the legations.
The foreign diplomats were recognized as leaders in Washington society, and one of the Secretaries of Legation created a sensation by appearing on Pennsylvania Avenue mounted on a velocipede imported from London.
The foreign diplomats did not receive, but with the army and navy men and the citizens "generally" went "the grand rounds.
It was the especial social duty of Secretary Fish to entertain the foreign diplomats in Washington, to settle their little disputes on questions of etiquette, and to make them reasonably happy.
These foreign diplomats delude themselves with the belief that they play an important political part at Washington.
Almost from the hour of its inception it has furnished the country with a very distinguished proportion of its most eminent diplomats and statesmen.
But diplomats proposed, and the United States Senate disposed.
The Austrian diplomats smiled as they heard the name of the old soldier of '48 and '49.
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