Word: ambassador
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...Lenox, Mass., last week, died Henry White, onetime (1905-07) Ambassador to Italy, onetime (1907-09) Ambassador to France, and Peace Commissioner to the Peace Conference at Paris (1918). The younger generation perhaps associates his name chiefly with his Paris mission, though there he played a necessarily subordinate part...
...From 1884 to 1893 he was a Secretary at the Court of St. James's. Then came four years of private life (coinciding with the Democratic Cleveland Administration). In 1897 President McKinley sent him back to London where he remained till 1905, in which year President Roosevelt appointed him Ambassador to Italy. From 1907 to 1909 he was Ambassador to France...
President Roosevelt called him "the most useful member of the diplomatic service." Joseph H. Choate, onetime (1899-1905) U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's said (in 1910) that Mr. White (who was a member of the U. S. secretarial staff in London during the regime of five ambassadors?Phelps, Lincoln, Bayard, Hay, Choate) "conducted a school of diplomacy at London." "He took fresh, green Ambassadors and put them to school," said Mr. Choate. "Hardly a question that could arise did not arise under the five Ambassadors under whom he served. You can imagine, with Harry White...
Suppose that U. S. President Coolidge should send a Negro as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's? President Coolidge, prudent, did no such thing last week; but he did appoint a Negro, William T. Francis of St. Paul, as U. S. Minister to the Free & Independent Republic of Liberia...
Died. Dr. Gastao da Cunha, famed Brazilian diplomat, onetime (1919) Ambassador to Italy, onetime (1920) Ambassador to France, onetime Ambassador to Portugal, onetime (1921-22) President of the League of Nations Council; after a long illness, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...