Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mile sub-Atlantic railway seemed to grow ever so slightly less mad, as Britons and Frenchmen got down again to dealing seriously with their half-century-old project of driving a double-track tunnel under the English Channel, 21 miles across. In London the French Ambassador, popular M. Aimé Joseph de Fleuriau, officially declared at a dinner tendered him in the House of Commons, "When the British Government and the British Nation are ready to build the tunnel we will build it with them. We very much desire...
...century of stagnation, the Comite called in and elected as their president kinetic M. Yves Le Trocquer, recently French Minister of Public Works (1920-25). As Vice President they chose M. Jules Cambon, distinguished statesman and brother of beloved Paul Cambon (1843-1524) who was for 22 years French Ambassador to His Britannic Majesty. When the Committee adjourned to banquet, Jules Cambon, raised a sparkling glass and cried: "On the day the tunnel is completed England and France will have found the real road to peace...
...relative of His Excellency S. Gurgel do Amaral, Brazil's ambassador...
...bearer of the invitation was Sir Esme Howard, Dean of the Diplomatic Corps at Washington, Ambassador of His Britannic Majesty. Present and also invited by the Powers was Owen D. Young, chairman of the General Electric Co., chairman of the Radio Corp. of America, chief collaborator with General Dawes on the original Plan. Officially Mr. Young and Mr. Morgan will rank as equals on the new Committee; but Mr. Young is expected to sit as chairman...
When the spinsters heard further that hussy Poetess Lewys had received letters of congratulation from Marshal Pétain, War Minister Paul Painleve, Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, the Poet-Ambassador of France to the U. S. Paul Claudel, they were but confirmed in the spinsterly opinion that...