Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried to play the whole thing down. His "little transactions," he said, "were peanuts in the whole scheme of things . . . something less than $1,000,000." It was true that he had been operating in the grain and other markets while he was Harry Truman's ambassador on the Allied Reparations Commission and while Secretary Anderson had been his house guest in Hawaii last summer...
Vyacheslav Molotov and his Russian colleagues lunched with George Marshall at the U.S. ambassador's residence in London. In the sitting room, a photographer asked them to gather round the fireplace. "Good," grinned Andrei Vishinsky, "that will be cozy...
First to handshake his way past the Trumans in the white & gold East Room was the dean of Washington's diplomatic corps, Brazil's Ambassador Carlos Martins, accompanied by his sculptress wife, Maria, and their handsome, 19-year-old daughter Nora. Portly Ambassador Martins bore up bravely in tight-fitting full-dress uniform of dark green, covered with gold-leaf embroidery, sword and medals. Said he: "One more pound and I have to get a new uniform...
...Soviets sent along their naval attaché, Rear Admiral Eugeni Georgievich Glinkov (their new Ambassador has not yet arrived). But because of the U.S.'s part in the partition of Palestine, almost all the Arab League countries' diplomats stayed away...
...Russians arrived with their bodyguards, but left them in the courtyard. In the lofty Blue Drawing Room, Molotov and colleagues stuck together in a tight little knot and touched neither the champagne cup nor the whiskey and sherry. They did not even smoke. George Marshall stuck with U.S. Ambassador Douglas. Winston Churchill, looking as gloomy as his frock coat, left early. The King talked to Molotov a little longer than to his other visitors...