Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Representatives of eight Atlantic, Pact nations emerged from a two-hour-and-20-minute conference and stepped into a reception room on the fifth floor of the U.S. State Department, as pleased and smiling as though they had delivered a bouncing, 8-lb. boy. The Belgian ambassador, Baron Silvercruys, gave out a verbal bulletin: "It's all fine, agreed and everything...
...celebrate his return to the U.S., Ambassador Josiah Marvel Jr. thought he would give the kind of party Copenhagen's diplomatic corps would not so soon forget. It was a costume ball at which the guests came in the peasant garments of their native land. To set the proper mood, the ambassador had tethered a live cow in the hall of "Rydhave," the stately ambassadorial lodge...
This, thought Denmark's Communist daily, was too good to overlook. The ambassador's "escapist" party, crowed Land og Folk, pointed an ugly moral. Said Land og Folk: "It makes one think of other festivals where aristocrats amused themselves by dressing up as plain peasants -that was in the period preceding the French Revolution [when] the people of Versailles fled from reality into a rustic idyll . . . [Today again] exploited masses are rising and claiming their right-but our aristocrats do not want to hear...
...papers printed guest lists of the party, it turned out that Land og Folk had in its haste forgotten to clear the story in the proper place. High up among the feckless "aVisto-crats" who plugged their ears to the revolution's rumble was portly Andrei Plakhin, Soviet Ambassador to Denmark, who came to Marvel's party dressed as an estate manager in Czarist days. Not to be outdone as an escapist, Mine. Plakhin looked fetching as a simple peasant maid...
Next morning, before U.S. Ambassador Robert Butler could apologize for his countrymen's disgraceful behavior, 200 University of Havana students massed in front of the embassy, fired stones through a window, tried to haul down the U.S. flag, yelled: "Out with the yanquisl" Shirt-sleeved students gave Butler an angry escort as he drove first to the Ministry of State, then to Marti's statue, where he planted a wreath of yellow dahlias (cost: $50, paid by the Navy) and read an apology in English: "[I wish to express my very profound regret at the unfortunate conduct...