On the line to me now, is our diplomatic correspondent, David Spannier.

He returned to Washington in 1984, becoming the Journal's chief diplomatic correspondent.

In 1990, he moved to television and worked briefly as political, diplomatic and education correspondent.

From 1985 to 1986, he was diplomatic correspondent based in London.

And from 1947 to 1949, he was a roving diplomatic correspondent, based in New York.

He also worked in apartheid South Africa, was a diplomatic correspondent and a foreign leader writer.

He later reported from many parts of the world and was diplomatic correspondent for four years.

This would be the diplomatic correspondent about to go away for a weekend's shooting.

In 1971, he was transferred to Washington as diplomatic correspondent.

He returned to Time as a diplomatic correspondent in 1946 and was Washington bureau chief from 1948 to 1957.