First about personal diplomacy. It is that in which heads of states and governments not only meet and mingle in person, but also haggle over matters of trade and truce by themselves, a job traditionally done behind closed doors by professional diplomats. Champions of personal diplomacy say, professional diplomats would get issues entangled in red tape, or locked up in round brackets and square brackets, and would trip over commas, colons and communique prose. Issues can be sorted out better, they say, if the principals develop a personal chemistry between them.
It is generally held that Franklin Roosevelt initiated personal diplomacy in modern times. He got Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin to meet him a dozen times in less than four years during World War II, at times in such odd places as Malta, Yalta and Casablanca. In the pre-jet age, that must have been some summiteering!
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