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Surprisingly from the Cathedral dashed - after the service - Mrs. Parmely Herrick and Chargé d'Affaires Norman Armour of the Embassy. Mrs. Herrick had been distraught earlier in the day, had fainted, inhaled smelling salts, revived. She now ordered her chauffeur to speed up the Champs Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe, guarded only by a single poilu. Acting from pure impulse, without notifying the authorities, Mrs. Parmely Herrick had resolved to place a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as a last tribute from Ambassador Herrick...
From the first the Paraguayans have contended that it was their troops who were attacked by Bolivians; and the Paraguay chargé d' affaires at La Paz, Bolivia, immediately suggested neutral investigation of whatever had occurred in Gran Chaco. The reply of the Bolivian government was to break off relations with Paraguay last fortnight, and to send more Bolivian soldiers last week into Gran Chaco, where at least 200 humans met death in circumstances impossible to ascertain...
Nelson O'Shaughnessy, jolly Manhattanite, who once played tennis with the German Crown Prince, who was a popular chargé d'affaires in Mexico during the vexations of President Wilson's first administration, who speaks five languages, who is now negotiating loans with the Jugoslav Government for Blair & Co. of Manhattan, is something of an imperialist. Last week he paused on a holiday in Vienna to say: "It is only a question of time when we will have to invade Mexico to call a definite halt on its trouble making-propensities. We might as well face...
Died. Leonid Krassin, 56, Russian Soviet Chargé d'Affaires ("Ambassador") at London; in London, of pernicious anemia, after numerous blood transfusions had failed to save his life. "The Bourgeois Bolshevik," he enjoyed the confidence of Lenin and Trotsky although he held much more moderate views than theirs. He negotiated most of the commercial treaty on which Soviet commerce rests today. He was rec ognized as Ambassador at Berlin and Paris, but although he was accredited in London as an Ambassador the British Government never recognized him as anything but a chargé d'affaires. Six thousand British...
...mere luncheon at the home of M. Rousseau, attended by two U. S. financiers: Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank and Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co. Finally Mr. Mellon dropped in at the U. S. Embassy and was reminded of a duty by able Chargé d'Affaires Sheldon Whitehouse. Mr. Whitehouse informed Mr. Mellon that in deference to custom he must call on the Premier of France, M. Poincaré. Moreover, added Mr. Whitehouse, Foreign Minister Briand had already put off his departure for the League session at Geneva...