Word: charg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Precedent. Last week, when Germany embarrassed Russia by anchoring City of Flint at Murmansk, the U. S. State Department moved with calm deliberation. It asked its officials in Oslo, Moscow and Berlin for information. Alexander Kirk, chargé d'affaires in Berlin, made informal inquiries, reported the German claim that inadequate charts had forced the City of Flint to take refuge at Murmansk. What Germany demanded of Russia was not known. What the U. S. wanted was clear: it wanted information about the whereabouts and welfare of the crew. Coupled with U. S. playing down of the case, that...
...Kipling's "The Bear that walks like a "Man"; Russians were damning England as the land of money-loving merchants. Thereupon, in 1907, they agreed to an alliance against Germany. By 1917, after the Bolshevik Revolution, they were enemies again; in 1927, three years after they had exchanged chargés d'affaires, England broke off relations as a result of Comintern anti-British propaganda in China. Two years later, while the British press tiraded against Communism, the British sent an ambassador to Moscow...
...land and we can annex it," and which told exactly how it could done. The signatures on the letter were identified as those of a German Embassy secretary and Nazi Leader Alfred Müller. Result: police arrested Leader Müller, raided Nazi Party offices. The German Chargė d'Affaires protested that the letter was a "gross forgery," and Argentine Foreign Minister José Maria Cantilo made a conciliatory reply, although continuing to investigate. Most delighted were British and American traders who believed that the German genius for losing friends would weaken the Nazis' position...
When Adolf Hitler took over Austria, his Ambassador in Washington, Hans Dieckhoff, quietly took over the Austrian Legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue without protest from popular Austrian Minister Edgar Prochnik. Last week Dr. Hans Thomsen, German Chargé d'Affaires (who in the continued absence of Herr Dieckhoff is Adolf Hitler's No. i man in the U. S.), received orders to take over the building standing right next door to the late Austrian Legation-the Legation of Czecho-Slovakia. He ordered two secretaries to go over and take possession. After they left he rang...
Died. Prentiss Bailey Gilbert, 55, U. S. chargé d'affaires in Germany since Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson's recall last November; of thrombosis; in Berlin...