Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nights later, Yugoslav Ambassador Sava N. Kosanovic, a relatively minor diplomat, had 120 guests in to hear his compatriot, Violinist Zlatko Balakovic, give a recital. He, too, had Senators and a minister, and his party had a fine international air-although his official hostess, one Dr. Mica Trbojezic, did run around popping little meatballs into her guests' mouths...
...sturgeon which Mrs. Mesta had imported from Russia had every reason for congratulating itself upon the climax of its career. As it lay flanked by Mrs. Mesta's superior foods, it could eye Presidential Aide Clark Clifford, assorted Senators, Opera Singer Dorothy Kirsten, a countess, Netherlands Ambassador Alexander Loudon and Chief Justice Fred Vinson. Mrs. Mesta even served her 172 guests domestic champagne -a colossal gesture of poise and confidence...
Craignez honte-Fear disgrace-is the motto of Britain's Cavendish-Bentinck family. It does not mean "Fear accusations." Poland's Communists, abetted by their comrades in London, used the technique of the personal smear campaign against British Ambassador Victor Cavendish-Bentinck, who faced it coolly. Then Polish Government officials simply refused to see Cavendish-Bentinck. Last week, his usefulness in Warsaw ended, he announced that he had been transferred to another post. London sources said it was a better...
Cavendish-Bentinck did not let the charges against his friends or himself prevent him from discharging his obligation of observing last month's Polish election; he made no secret of his belief (shared by U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane) that the election was neither free nor unfettered, as Britain, the U.S. and Russia had guaranteed at Yalta. Apparently, he felt that it would be a personal and a national disgrace to duck a responsibility his country had assumed...
...Senator Arthur Vandenberg invited him-but no hurry about it-to talk to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He decided that he would go to Moscow in March for the Council of Foreign Ministers meetings. Coming to closer grips with the sizzling Argentina policy controversy, he conferred with Ambassador George Messersmith and Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden...