Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alberto Bellardi Ricci, Italian minister to Stockholm, was about to take his new post as full-fledged ambassador to Chile. He was a kind, popular diplomat and sorry to leave his Swedish friends. "However," he said, "I shall return." On Christmas Day, in high spirits, he gave a farewell party in the legation's sumptuous dining room. Maria, the maid, brought in a letter. Legation Secretary Marquis Gian Gaspari Cittadini-Cesi looked at the disjointed scrawlings. "This man is mad," he told Ricci. "You should not receive...
...Ambassador," he was asked, "how do you feel about peace? Do you have high hopes?" "Hopes, yes. Not high." What about the devaluation of the ruble? "Is very good for Russia." And the end of food rationing? "Is very nice...
...fast. Where was his home town? He did not seem to understand. Where was he born? That was easier: "In Kuibyshev, on the Volga River." "We know all about the Volga," a brassy chap informed him. "We have a song called The Volga Boatman" "Very nice song," observed the ambassador...
...have very bad English," the ambassador began. He smiled pleasantly. A newsreel man assured him that his English was better than Molotov's. If that flattered him, he did not show it. But he managed to get out that he had been Soviet ambassador to China from 1939 to 1944, that his wife, Ekaterina, would join him in January...
Bread. Shipmates had noted that Panyushkin, who suffers from stomach trouble, had carried his own black bread and Russian white wine, that he had caviar with his dinner and that he was a good tipper (amounts unspecified). When newsmen got through with him, Ambassador Panyushkin was taken in charge by a State Department representative, the Russian Consul General and six Soviet attach...