Word: charg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some others: Alexander Barmine (former Soviet chargé d'affaires in Athens, now a U.S. citizen); Victor Kravchenko (former member of the Soviet Purchasing Commission in Washington); Fedor F. Raskolnikov (former Soviet minister to Bulgaria, died in suspicious circumstances on the French Riviera); Walter G. Krivitsky (former chief of Soviet Military Intelligence in Western Europe, died in suspicious circumstances in Washington); Ignace Reiss (former assistant chief of Soviet Military Intelligence in Central Europe, murdered in Switzerland...
...protest that came from a member of the U.S. Embassy staff concerned something else. Roosevelt photographs usually showed him seated, wrote Theodore Geiger, and "Americans are so accustomed to seeing him in that position that a statue of him standing may seem incongruous. . . ." The embassy chargé d'affaires, who had approved the design, hurriedly announced that Geiger was just giving his own, unofficial opinion...
...That Atcheson, as Chargé d'Affaires in Hurley's absence from Chungking, had recommended a policy of furnishing Lend-Lease arms to the Chinese Communists. That, said Pat Hurley, would have made the collapse of Chiang's Government inevitable...
...place in the vast NKVD archives beside the French edition, Vingt Ans au Service de I'U.R.S.S. (1939) of which this is an English amplification. In the NKVD's dossier, under the entry "Alexander Barmine, traitor, renegade, former Brigadier General of the Red Army, former Soviet chargé d'affaires at Athens," will appear a new entry: "author of One Who Survived." This book will be one of the heaviest counts against Author Barmine if the NKVD is ever able to extend to him Russia's "highest measure of social protection"-rastrel (shooting...
...spotless Embassy the U.S. Government, which does not recognize the De Gaulle Government, had no Ambassador last week. But Chargé d'Affaires Selden Chapin, accompanied by a dozen aides and advisers, arrived from Algiers, made an approving tour of the Embassy's vacant splendors. Then he moved into a hotel...