Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Independence, with Brazilian Ambassador Carlos Martins and his wife aboard, took off from Washington National Airport this week, two hours after a plane loaded with 22 reporters, photographers, radio and newsreel men. In the press plane was one woman: slight, sharp-tongued, fiftyish May Craig, a grandmother and longtime correspondent for Maine's Gannett newspaper chain. Reporter Craig was one of Harry Truman's few worries of the moment...
...compound the trouble, Washington heard rumbles of a misunderstanding between U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh and Dwight P. Griswold, administrator of the aid program in Athens, over U.S. methods in Greece. Off to Athens in a hurry went the State Department's able, vigorous Loy Henderson, chief of the Near Eastern and African Affairs office...
...Edinburgh registry office, Inverchapel (65) remarried fortyish Chilean beauty Maria Teresa Diaz Salas, whom he had first married in 1929 when he was envoy to Chile. His wife was known to her Santiago friends as "Sweet Candy." Inverchapel divorced her in 1945 (for desertion, in 1941, when he was Ambassador to China...
...quick adoption of a strong hemispheric treaty. He breakfasted at 8 at his private Petrópolis villa on the Rua 7 de Septembro, and by 10, having read the dispatches from Nanking and Athens, was conferring with his aides in his yellow-&-green Suite 200 at the Quitandinha. Ambassadors William Dawson and Walter Donnelly were acquainted with every Latin American problem, and Donnelly seemed to know every Latin delegate. Bill Pawley was sharp on Brazilian angles. Shrewd Norman Armour, onetime Ambassador in B.A., understood the Argentine way of thinking. Arthur Vandenberg's practiced eye never wandered...
Remarried. Rt. Hon. Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr (pronounced "car"), Lord Inverchapel, first Baron of Loch Eck, 65, Britain's tweedy Ambassador to the U.S.; and Chilean beauty Maria Teresa Diaz Salas, fortyish, whom he divorced two years ago; in Edinburgh (see FOREIGN NEWS...