Word: charg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Japanese Government announced that it would set up a Legation in Addis Ababa in January. To point the snub, first Chargé d'Affaires will be the present Japanese Counselor at Rome, Shoichi Nakayama...
...wing-tipped sport shoes, padded into the gold-veiled sanctuary. Empress Waizeru Menen, who dearly loves the Christian solace of confession, and 70 plump brown Ethiopian ladies entered the Cathedral by another door. In concentric circles according to rank squatted court functionaries, deacons, laymen, foreign missionaries and U. S. Chargé d'Affaires Cornelius Engert. With rain beating monotonously outside, there arose the sound of bells and, from the sanctuary, the clash of cymbals and the jingle of sistra. Then began a two-hour mass, chanted in a long-dead patois of Greek and Arabic which many a worshipper...
Meanwhile in Addis Ababa sharp-nosed Power of Trinity was celebrating his 44th birthday. When the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires, William Perry George, arrived at the Palace, a large and ostensibly impromptu Ethiopian crowd suddenly produced small U. S. flags from beneath their loose garments, waved these frantically and shrilled something that was supposed to sound like "Long live America!" During the birthday reception, the Abouna Kyrillos, head of Ethiopia's Christian Coptic Church, stood with his large right foot prominently planted on the base of the Emperor's Throne. Grouped around His Majesty were...
...President's secretaries that in diplomacy he is very adroit, revels in doing "the smart thing," and would have made a perfect Ambassador in the great days of diplomacy, a sort of Talleyrand. The master stroke delivered by Talleyrand Roosevelt last week was to have the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires inform Emperor Power of Trinity that...
...depart. Immediately the Ethiopian Mission Service ordered all its U. S. and other missionaries to remain at their posts in Ethiopia "whatever happens." Its explanation: "We put our faith in God, and do not expect consular protection." At latest reports from Washington the State Department still had not ordered Chargé D'Af- faires William Perry George to cable the full text of Emperor Power of Trinity's appeal. An ingenious young man at whiling away sultry hours in the squat, square U. S. Legation at Addis Ababa, Mr. George has taken up the native slingshot, become...