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...Minister Plenipotentiary, the Great Ghaffar Khan Djalal, arrest him for speeding, all diplomatic and consular agents of Iran have been withdrawn from the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). To Teheran went word last week that the end of insults was not yet. Though Iran's chargé d'affaires, Hossein Ghods, has already left the U. S. in the wake of his chief, the U. S. Customs was vulgar enough to suggest that Iran's chargé d'affaires was little better than a common smuggler...
...Imperial Iranian Foreign Office, the U. S. is not an important nation. Iran's best diplomats are sent to Moscow, Afghanistan and Britain. Until he was suddenly elevated to the post of chargé d'affaires, M. Hossein Ghods was a diffident, nervous little man who tiptoed about the Legation in Washington, and whose chief cross was the fact that his Minister's British wife did not like him, made him use the servants' entrance...
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...