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...Club. In Mexico City, Foreign Minister Jaime Torres Bodet curtly announced last week that the agreement had been abrogated by unilateral U.S. action. In Washington, Chargé d'Affaires Rafael de la Colina delivered a protest which U.S. diplomats described as a "stemwinder." Mexico's press wrathfully asked whether U.S. agreements were scraps of paper...
...Rubi." Her husband was Porfirio Rubirosa, whom she had met the year before in Rome. "Rubi" danced divinely. Dee-Dee danced divinely, too. Rubi was honorary chargé d'affaires of the Dominican Republic, although he was not recognized by the French because he had once been acceptable to the Vichy regime. He was lean, dark, and a few inches shorter than Dee-Dee. He had been married twice before-to Dominican Dictator Trujillo's daughter Flor de Oro, and to Danielle Darrieux, the pert and sexy French film star (Mayerling), who had once been marked for death...
...year ago the Yugoslav chargé d'affaires told the Department of External Affairs that many of his countrymen in Canada wanted to go back to Yugoslavia as soon as shipping became available. An advance guard of four Yugoslav-Canadians went to the mother country to make arrangements. Two returned: Steve Serdar and Nick Kombol, both known Communists. They set about drumming up recruits for repatriation, working through the Communist-dominated Council of Canadian South Slavs...
Marrying Season. Until last fall, when the U.S. chargé d'affaires in India visited Nepal for the purpose of decorating the Maharaja with the Legion of. Merit, only a handful of Americans had ever visited the country. But last fortnight the doings of the exotic Americans competed as an attraction with local goings on. This is the Nepalese marrying season. Beginning at 5:30 in the mornings, the streets of Kathmandu echo with sounds of three-man orchestras, flute, drum and tambourine, which accompany the bridegrooms, sitting in small palanquins, on their way to the weddings...
...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...