Word: charge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, acting for the President, sent a copy of the message-scornful words and all-to Dr. Hans Thomsen, Germany's Chargé d'Affaires in Washington. Added Mr. Welles, polite as always: "Accept, sir, the renewed assurance of my high consideration...
...suite at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan, handsome Dr. Hans Thomsen, German Chargé d'Affaires, sadly puffed a cigar, remarked to reporters: "It is not the first time that this has happened and things just take their course." Dr. Thomsen had not yet been invited to leave Washington; the final break in U.S.-Nazi diplomatic relations had not yet been made. But they were badly cracked...
Although some of the homing officials had been rooted out of their posts by the war machines of Hitler and Stalin, and one, Ambassador Phillips, was convalescing from an illness, the fact remained that no chargé d'affaires had the weight or the prestige to do an Ambassador's work at the key capitals...
...editor, historian, Minister of the Interior in the last Republican Government; Antonio Cruz Salido, onetime Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party; Carlos Montilla y Escudero, onetime Director of Spanish Railways, Loyalist Counselor in Havana; Miguel Salvador y Carreras, famed music critic, co-founder of the Madrid Philharmonic Society, Loyalist Chargé d'Affaires in Copenhagen. Over their bodies, the Spain of Franco aspires to a "prominent place over the ruins of Europe...
...time the survivors had been returned to Britain the death roll had mounted to 83 of the 90 children and 210 of 316 adults, some of them refugees from German concentration camps. Among the dead were Rudolf Olden, onetime anti-Hitler editor of the Berliner Tageblatt; Dr. Gallinsky, new Chargé d'Affaires of the Polish Embassy in Washington; Colonel James Baldwin-Webb, M. P., on a Red Cross mission to Canada...