Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Very few Americans knew his name or were aware that Nikolai Vasilievich Novikov had been, for the last 19 months, the Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Very few Americans knew that he had been called to Moscow in July for consultation and had not been back since. Very few Americans noticed that, last week, Ambassador Novikov had been relieved of his duties. His mission to Washington - whatever it was, and however well he had done it - was over. His successor: Alexander Semyenovich Panyushkin...
...diplomats, at least, knew who Alexander Panyushkin was. He had been the Soviet Ambassador to China from 1939 to 1944. At that point, chronic stomach trouble - that was the story, and it was a likely story - forced him to return to Russia. A tall, slouching man with a pale face, Panyushkin covers his Communist inflexibility with a manner that, compared to Novikov's, is affable and friendly. Like most younger Russian diplomats, his English is poor and he frequently submits to interpretation. He is a member of the revision committee of the Communist Party's Central Executive Committee...
...failure could be put down to two main causes: 1) the appalling weakness of the Greek Army; 2) a personal feud between the two equal U.S. plenipotentiaries in Athens, Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh and Dwight Griswold, special head of the U.S. mission...
...Brazilian Government brusquely broke off diplomatic relations with Moscow. Foreign Minister Raul Fernandez had hauled in the welcome mat and handed passports to the Soviet Embassy staff. Ambassador Jacob Surits was saved the indignity; he had already hiked off to Moscow...
...generally churlish editorial on Brazil, that President Eurico Caspar Dutra was "surprisingly colorless even for a country where the generals are made, not on the battlefield, but on coffee plantations." The Brazilian Army fumed. A Foreign Office demand for an apology went unanswered. Last week the Brazilian Ambassador in Moscow was instructed to tell the Kremlin that 2½ years of edgy fraternity (but no trade) were all over...