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Died. Ellis L. Dresel, 54, lawyer, diplomatist, signer of the Peace Treaty with Germany, as plenipotentiary and U. S. Chargé d'Affaires in Berlin after the War, at his home in Pride's Crossing, Mass. A lawyer for 25 years, he suddenly became a diplomat through accidentally being in Berlin when the War broke out and there offering to Ambassador Gerard his services in looking after stranded Americans. Later he was an Attache of the U. S. Embassy at Berlin; aided the Red Cross in caring for prisoners of war hi Germany; headed the political information section...
...Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik Chargé d'Affaires at London, left Moscow and, after bumping across the continent and plowing through the North Sea, landed at Harwich. His briefcase contained orders for $75,000,000 worth of machinery, textiles, etc. British manufacturers smacked their lips, rubbed their hands and passed pleasant remarks about the weather. Rakovsky said that he could not pay cash and was about to explain about the wonderful harvest prospects when it became obvious that his audience was no longer interested...
...expected, if his mission is successful, that Count Szechenyi will head the legation at both Washington and Mexico City, being represented in absence at the latter city by a Chargé d'Affaires...
...Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes dictated a note to Lawrence Dennis, U. S. Chargé d'Affaires at. Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras...
...Moscow went Leonid Krassin, Bolshevik Ambassador to France; Nikolai Krestinsky, Bolshevik Ambassador to Germany; Christian Rakovsky, Bolshevik Chargé d'Affaires in Britain. In the capital they are to sit in solemn conclave with the chiefs of the Communist Party. It was rumored that they would decide to recognize the debts to foreign countries contracted by the Tsarist régime...