Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JAMES B. STEWART U.S. Ambassador (ret.) Denver
...Baron Eric Magnus de Staël-Holstein in a deal of unromantic grandeur under which 1) France gave Sweden the West Indian island of Saint-Barthélemy, 2) the King of Sweden gave Baron de Staël, who had rigged the gift, the plum post of Ambassador to Paris, 3) Banker Necker, who had refused to settle for a son-in-law below ambassadorial rank, gave daughter Germaine to Ambassador de Staël, along with a whopping dowry. As for Germaine, she wanted to cultivate "the intellectual and nervous exaltation" which was her notion...
...Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, speaking for the West, said such an agreement would not be worth the paper it is written...
...went to Europe in my junior and senior year. I went over in the summer and concocted a cock-and-bull story about wanting to be in the diplomatic service .... I wasn't in the diplomatic corps. The ambassador let me be in the embassy. Just t' see if I liked...
...Ambassador hailed the granting of independence to Cuba by Roosevelt as "part of the American tradition" of foreign policy. It was, he said, in line with the recent withdrawal of U.S. troops from Lebanon, and in contrast to the actions of the Russians, "who enter a country and stick there...