British diplomats, constantly exposed to American political-ethical rhetoric, find their professional skills tested to the limits by the need to keep a straight face. For illustrations of what I mean, study the photographs of the expressions worn by Mr Douglas Hurd at any international conference involving all the Western allies.
Conor Cruise O'BrienStichwörter: diplomacy western-world douglas-hurd
Today, as a result of the policy of Macmillan's Government, Great Britain presents in the United Nations the face of Pecksniff and in Katanga the face of Gradgrind.
Conor Cruise O'BrienStichwörter: hard-times charles-dickens united-nations martin-chuzzlewit united-kingdom gradgrind harold-macmillan state-of-katanga
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