Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Worry. It was a hot day in August 1934. Lewis W. Douglas, now Harry Truman's Ambassador to London, had just resigned from the budget post in protest over the New Deal's heavy spending; Douglas had vainly championed a balanced budget. Morgenthau got a hasty summons from Franklin Roosevelt. The President was taking a bath when the Secretary of the Treasury bustled in. "Henry," said F.D.R. blandly, "I give you until midnight to get me a new Director of the Budget...
...applauded. A silk-stocking audience in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel broke into a noontime speech 25 times in 35 minutes. He was also cheered, though more perfunctorily, by Republicans in San Francisco and Reno, and greeted heartily by party members in Las Vegas and at Hoover and Shasta dams...
Nineteen twenty-three was a year in which a U.S. Ambassador could complacently declare: "The national American policy is to have no foreign policy." Many Americans agreed with him-but not the editors of the year-old quarterly, Foreign Affairs. Last week, Foreign Affairs celebrated its 25th anniversary in a U.S. which had come a long way from...
Poland's Russian-controlled Government also tried out some static, Moscow style. Sixteen Poles were convicted of spying for "a foreign government." One of the charges was that they had supplied ex-Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane with material for his article "How Russia Rules Poland," which appeared in LIFE, July 14.* The sentence: death for nine, long imprisonment for seven...
...French Ambassador Henri Bonnet and smart wife Helle (who ran a Manhattan hat shop during the war) arrived by air. Mme. Bonnet posed for photographers in her stylish grey tweed, 5 in. b.t.k. Discreet statement by the Ambassador: "I have no opinion on these matters...