A DIPLOMAT, as once defined by US writer Caskie Stinnett, “is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip”.
Stinnett was writing in the mid-20th century, when exchanges between governments still relied on cadres of professionals based in each other’s capitals and communicating home via telegram, or dispatches hand-carried by couriers.
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