Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lunch. That afternoon, his twin-engined Dakota set him down at Le Bourget. Behind a motorcycle escort with whistles blowing, he and a carful of mild, bespectacled Foreign Office experts drove to the British Embassy on the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. For three hours Bevin and British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the Embassy gardens, comparing notes. Then Premier Paul Ramadier and dapper, London-tailored Foreign Minister Georges Bidault arrived with their experts. Eleven French and eleven Britons got their heads together over the veal,* adjourned to the garden veranda later for whiskey, brandy...
...conservative Figaro, France's former Ambassador to Berlin, André François-Poncet, also worried. He wrote: "What may be clear to an American élite may be less clear to the majority in Congress and, a fortiori, to the mass of electors. . . . There are plenty of people in America for whom Europe is a sort of lunatic asylum, a basket full of peevish crabs...
...raining when Career Diplomat George Messersmith landed in Buenos Aires a year ago. Last week, when the retiring U.S. Ambassador took his leave it was raining again. But there the resemblance between the two occasions ended...
Messersmith had arrived in Argentina when the strain on U.S.-Argentine relations was at its height. He had eased the strain. Now, to salute the new U.S.Argentine friendship with which Argentines identify Ambassador Messersmith,*President Juan Perón had ordered a rousing sendoff. Earlier in the week he had invited Messersmith to Casa Rosada, decorated him with Argentina's valued Grand Cross of the Order of the Liberator San Martin, and embraced him while Senator Alberto Teisaire and other big shots applauded...
...ship readied to sail, Messersmith and Perón stood bareheaded on the deck, the Ambassador visibly shivering in the raw winter wind, talking fast and repeatedly jabbing Perón on the chest with his index finger. Perón reassuringly patted the Ambassador. Then the President joined 12,000 Peronistas on the pier. "Perón! Messersmith! Perón! Messersmith!" chanted the crowd. For nearly an hour, as the Del Sud moved into the stream and out to sea, Perón stood on the quayside-still waving...