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...that he was a natural-born landlubber; the sea made him literally very sick. He got out of the Navy and transferred to the Coast Artillery in 1911, when he was 21. His brother Bill, whom he followed into Annapolis by three years, is now a captain, U.S. Naval attaché in Buenos Aires...
...taken into account. . . . Whatsoever judgment is made before knowing the result of this investigation would be adventurous. Furthermore, it would be imprudent." The Argentine Foreign Office stiffly suggested that the matter was not serious because: 1) the ship had not sunk; 2) no one was killed. In Washington Attaché Alberto Brunet was ordered to go cast a professionally analytical eye on the damage...
...second request, however, the Swiss, an ingenious people who make watches, thought up a "semiofficial" way to deliver the note. An attaché of the Swiss Foreign Office at Berne, they suggested, might pay a visit to a secretary of the Legation of Hungary (or Rumania or Bulgaria) and mention that the Swiss Legation in Washington happened to have learned that the U.S. Government was thinking of declaring war on Hungary (and Rumania and Bulgaria). Indeed, he even happened to have got hold of a copy of a note to that effect. Dropping the note on the table, the Swiss...
...worked with Mexican Ambassador Dr. Francisco Castillo Nájera toward trade and priorities programs with the U.S. But most of the time, and very informally, he visited. He received callers, apologizing for his English, while an attaché hammered a typewriter in one corner of the room and Embassy personnel passed constantly in and out. He gave Vice President Henry Wallace a chance to test his Spanish, and got along so well with British Ambassador Lord Halifax that they exchanged autographed photographs. One night he received 350 guests, and during the reception went upstairs with Ambassador Castillo...
...have shown that about 10 percent of the radio audience in this country, or nearly seven million people, listen frequently to foreign short wave programs. Professor Allport stated, "Of these, only a few believe what they hear," he said," but there are those who even though they do no attach much importance to the broadcasts themselves, pass on to other people what they have heard. Thus they get a feeling of importance in letting others knew that they have been listening to foreign stations...