The traces of Yax Pasaj's activities as a peripatetic diplomatist are also preserved in several inscribed alabaster vases from western Honduras. |
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President Abraham Lincoln as diplomatist? Hardly a subject at the top of the list in examining a presidency that spanned the U. S. Civil War. |
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He held several high offices in his native place, and distinguished himself no less as a statesman and diplomatist than as a rhetorician. |
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When a Secretariat was set up by the Commonwealth, a Canadian diplomatist became Secretary-General, a title that carries with it grave responsibilities and enormous possibilities. |
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And Lincoln's role as skillful diplomatist was an indispensable ingredient in forestalling European intervention and prevailing in one of the often-forgotten yet crucially decisive battles of the Civil War. |
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Lincoln was the very prototype of a diplomatist. |
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Zhou Enlai, China's premier diplomatist, had been working toward the same end, as evidenced by his invitation to the U. S. ping-pong team to visit China and communications through Pakistan's leader. |
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The subtle, pliant, patient, calculating diplomatist, master of timing in politics and war, ended his life in a tale of irresponsible incompetence. |
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When the Allied armies entered Paris in March 1814, the brilliant diplomatist Talleyrand was able to negotiate the restoration, and on May 3, 1814, Louis was received with jubilation by the war-weary Parisians. |
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