Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English newsman inquired if the British publi; were to enjoy the famed, picturesque Dawesian vocabulary. "Hell's bells, no!" said the discreetly indiscreet Ambassador. "I'm a diplomat now. I've got to don kid glove manners...
...Ambassador hustled to London, hustled to his desk at No. 4 Grosvenor Gardens, Mrs. Dawes and daughter Virginia sped to the Ambassadorial home in Prince's Gate (once J. Pierpont Morgan's), began unpacking furniture. Early the next day Mr. Dawes decked himself in a morning coat, clapped a silk hat on his head, hustled to Paddington Station, where British Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson stood stiffly awaiting. Mr. Dawes grabbed his hand, said something to make him smile, hustled into a train for Windsor to present his credentials to the King. No predecessor had ever done this...
After a half-hour, out hustled Ambassador Dawes. He flung a few words to the newsmen: "I found King George delightful. I do not know what the usual ceremony is. I merely presented my credentials and stopped at his invitation for a chat. His Majesty was looking very well...
That night the Dawes baggage was hustled aboard a train for Scotland. Next morning the Ambassador was gazing happily at heaths and highlands. Well-primed, Hustler Dawes quoted Macbeth at the newsmen...
...meeting with Mr. MacDonald followed, at Forres on Moray Firth. Two days later the Ambassador was to speak before royalty at the Pilgrims Society dinner in London. The same day, the Prime Minister was to address the dour fisherfolk of nearby Lossiemouth, his birthplace. They agreed to have both speeches touch on all-important naval reduction, and issued a joint communiqué to the effect that their speeches, when delivered, should be regarded as the starting point of a new disarmament movement in which "other naval powers are expected to co-operate...