Word: ambassadored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paris was as gay as ever. The dressy set had recovered from the Four Seasons Ball, and was studying pictorial evidence of the shindig's stylish fauna & flora: Britain's Lady Diana Duff Cooper, wife of the former ambassador to France, as a sad unicorn; Couturier Jacques Fath and Mme. Fath as tame tiger and roe, and Schiaparelli, in something she had run up herself as a carefree radish...
...this, Churchill's diplomacy is a superb combination of tact and inexorable firmness. While never forgetful of the President's constitutional limitations, Churchill also never forgets that such limitations might well prove fatal. "The President should bear . . . very clearly in mind," he instructs British Ambassador Lord-Lothian, that the U.S. cannot afford "any complacent assumption . . . that they will pick up the debris of the British Empire . . ." His own remarks to Roosevelt are sometimes genially humble ("I am so grateful to you for all the trouble you have been taking . . ."), sometimes confidently flattering ("I am sure that, with your...
...second feature utilizes another famous team, that of Olivier and Leigh. "That Hamilton Woman" is supposed to be the love story of Lord Nelson and the wife of a British ambassador in Naples. It is also beautiful acted, staged, and directed; unfortunately the fact that it was written during the Battle of Britain is too obvious whenever politics is mentioned. The script is almost pure propaganda in places. However, beyond these perhaps picayune details, "That Hamilton Woman" is an entertaining movie and an excellent piece of work...
...fortitude and judgment, Admiral James sadly admits, fade from sight during the interludes on the Continent with his mistress, Emma Hamilton. "Antony and Moll Cleopatra" (as they were named by one onlooker) turned the courts of Vienna, Prague, Dresden and Naples (where husband Sir William Hamilton was ambassador) into uproar. Emma guzzled champagne and gambled with Nelson's money. Nelson, down by the stern in an alcoholic sea, roared demands for songs in his own praise, and aged, cuckolded Hamilton, merry as a grig, "performed feats of activity, hopping around the room on his backbone, his arms, legs, star...
...idol who takes a tumble in the story is Baines (Ralph Richardson), an embassy butler in London. Baines is detested by his tight-lipped wife, idolized by the ambassador's young son Felipe (Bobby Henrey), and loved by an embassy typist (Michele Morgan) whom he in turn loves. Out of this emotional tangle, Author Greene has built a clever, suspenseful tale. Borrowing Henry James's trick of using the eyes of children as peepholes into adult passions, Greene centered the story on little Felipe...