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...been reopened. But Janitor Pierre Bizet, who had stayed on during the entire German occupation, was ready to sweep its parquet floors and polish its crystal chandeliers. In the speculation as to the new U.S. Ambassador to France, current guesses gave the job to able Norman Armour, now marking time in Washington since his recall from Argentina (TIME, July...
...State Department last week recalled Ambassador Norman Armour from Buenos Aires. Next day, as if in explanation, it released a pointed analysis of a speech delivered on June 10 by Argentina's War Minister Juan Domingo...
...Argentina the effect of these moves was not conclusive. Ambassador Armour's recall merely emphasized the fact that the Argentine Government had not enjoyed U.S. recognition since last February. Said the man-in-the-Calle-Florida: "What difference does it make? There's no recognition anyway." But the simultaneous departure of the Ambassadors of Peru, Paraguay and Chile (with others planning to follow) was a slap in the face for Argentine militarists...
Bristles, Blood and Bones. There is Philip Danforth Armour, burnsided, frock-coated and wing-collared, an impassioned believer in human perfectibility who is supposed to have said: "I like to turn bristles, blood, bones and the insides and outsides of pigs and bullocks into revenue now, for I can turn the revenue into these boys and girls [who were supported by Armour funds], and they will go on forever." There is curly-haired, German-Jewish Nelson Morris, who got his start by investing his savings in pigs whose legs had been broken in transit and who is supposed to have...
Argentina's Brigadier General Luis Cesar Perlinger, eagle-beaked, supernationalist Minister of the Interior, swung a haymaker at able U.S. Ambassador Norman Armour. Said Perlinger: "It is not possible to smile at an Ambassador of a country which does not maintain relations with the owner of the house. I am the first to assume an angry face toward such a man, and every Argentine must do the same...