Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Returning (in 1926), the Ambassador ran into a series of complications. There was the incident of the suspected Bolshevist influence in the Mexican Government. There was the war between the Calles Administration and the Roman Catholic Church. Later there were the documents stolen from the U. S. Department of State and discovered in the custody of the Mexican Government. These documents were particularly annoying inasmuch as they contained many unpleasant reflections on the Mexican Government, but their most sensational passages were later found to be forgeries, interpolated by the same knavish hand which first had stolen them...
...land appealed to many U. S. property holders (especially oil magnates) in Mexico as a pernicious and unsound doctrine. It was denounced as confiscatory, especially since Mexican officials were planning to make their Constitution retroactive and to invalidate titles secured long before the 1917 document was written. So Ambassador Sheffield led no entirely placid existence...
Because Hugh Gibson is a dapperly-dressed, middling-sized man of only 43, and thus "the youngest U. S. Ambassador," his appearance at Geneva as U. S. Chief Delegate was at first regarded in Europe as one of U. S. President Coolidge's solemn little pleasantries...
Hugh Simpson Gibson, Chief U. S. Delegate, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium...
Married. Miss Matilde Houghton, 23, daughter of U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Alanson Bigelow Houghton, to Chandler Parsons Anderson Jr., 27, onetime secretary to Ambassador Houghton, son of Lawyer Chandler Parsons Anderson, U. S. Commissioner of Mixed Claims Commission between U. S. and Germany, 1923; in London. Present were: Sir & Lady Austen Chamberlain, Premier & Mrs. Baldwin, Lord Balfour, Lord & Lady Astor, Lord & Lady Granard, Dean arid Mrs. Inge, Mrs. George Cabot Lodge, the Countess of Oxford & Asquith, the Marchioness Curzon, Prince & Princess Blucher, Col. Edward M. House, and many another...