Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appointed scholarly Career Diplomat Herschel V. Johnson, former member of the U.S. delegation to the U.N., as Ambassador to Brazil to succeed William D. Pawley (see LATIN AMERICA...
...spent her first weekend at Windsor Castle with the royal family. In London she shook 300 hands at a daytime reception (she wore a black hat, scattered with daisies), dined with the U.S. Ambassador, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister. She went to Covent Garden (in a black lace dress) to hear La Traviata, and got a thundering ovation as she entered the royal box. She visited the House of Lords, was entertained by the Lord Chancellor, had tea with the Prime Minister. Once as she was entering a London hotel all the men in the crowd outside respectfully...
...Nazis moved into their home, banded their arms with the yellow Star of David, sent Ervin's father to the Russian front as a gravedigger for the army. For months, Ervin and his mother lived in a dingy, heatless flat, hidden out by the music loving Swedish Ambassador...
Only about 600 guests showed up for the ceremonies at Vladislavsky Hall. One of the 400 empty seats had been assigned to U.S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt. Also absent were delegates from Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Chicago, from Oxford and Cambridge, from universities in 13 other countries. Present from the U.S.: delegates from Boston University, Washington State College and Colorado University...
...Democrats have improved in the last few weeks has been due more to the enormous effort put forth by the recently organized Catholic Action than by the increase of American interference in the form of letters to relatives, suggested return of pre-Fascist colonies, and speeches by the American Ambassador. The success of this group, working in every parish through Cardinals and priests to get out the vote, may well be the deciding factor in the election, since the apathetic votes represent the potential supporters of the de Gasperi party. The Pope has firmly said that all Catholics must vote...