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Among those conspicuously not present: U.S. Ambassador "Chip" Bohlen (vacationing in Western Europe); the U.S. chargé d'affaires, who was invited at the last moment to the reception but not the dinner and declined...
...Rubi" launched his career back in 1933 with a brief marriage to the spectacular Flor de Oro Trujillo, daughter of Dominican Dictator Rafael ("El Benefactor") Trujillo. Despite their divorce he was named chargé d'affaires in Paris in 1939, and went on to marry, successively, Actress Danielle Darrieux, sometimes called "the most beautiful woman in the world," and Doris Duke Cromwell, "the richest woman in the world." His job also led him to seeming affluence far beyond his official salary of $600 a month. Last week it came to a halt: Rubi got fired...
...Iranian chargé d'affaires in Rome and a functionary from the Italian Foreign Ministry, both of whom had ignored the Shah's harried arrival in Rome, came to pay their belated respects. On top of things again, the Shah refused to see the charge d'affaires who had snubbed him; later the Shah had him fired. Next morning, the Shah slipped out to a jeweler's and selected a variety of diamond baubles for Soraya. This was a consolation gift for her agreeing to remain a while in Rome for her "health." Then he boarded...
...internationalization prevented them from doing anything that would acknowledge Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The French ambassador, who much prefers Jerusalem's cool heights to raucous Tel Aviv, longed to transfer, but to his request Paris replied: "Coordinate your actions with the U.S. and Britain." The Italian chargé d'affaires responded to Sharett's invitation by offering to buy the Foreign Minister's Tel Aviv house now that Sharett was moving. Upshot: of the 25 emissaries accredited to Israel, only one-the Netherlands minister -is now in Jerusalem, and he has lived there...
...Four Soviet officials and their wives came early and stayed late at a cocktail party given by U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Jacob D. Beam...