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...polo which he and other junior diplomats played in the precincts of the Temple of Heaven and at poker where his winnings had to be relied on to augment his small official stipend. The day came when the State Department discovered that Henry Fletcher was also a diplomat. As chargé d'affaires at Peking in 1909, amid the rumblings that preceded the overthrow of the Empire, he proved his mettle. From then on his path was onward and upward. President Taft made him Minister to Chile. President Wilson promoted him to Ambassador, shifted him to troublesome Mexico. President...
...Alfred Sze (black brocaded chiffon kimono and diamond tiara), after Siam's Minister and Princess Damras (black velvet and ermine)-at the tail end of the diplomatic line-came the first representative of Russia to appear at a White House reception in 15 years: Soviet Chargé d'Affaires and Mrs. Boris E. Skvirsky (gold satin with train). Amid the bourgeois pomp they smiled, carried themselves with haughty dignity...
...Nations loan to Austria, largely underwritten by France and Britain in the belief that the Dollfuss Government is the sheet anchor of peace in Eastern Europe. Last week in Berlin peppery French Ambassador André Francois-Poncet left a stiff note at the Foreign Office and bland British Chargé d' Affaires Basil Newton protested verbally that German Nazi efforts to overthrow the Dollfuss Government are contrary to Germany's obligations under the Treaty of Versailles and more especially to the Four-Power Peace Pact recently signed in Rome by Britain, France, Italy and Germany (TIME, June...
...wise precaution. U. S. missionaries in the invaded territory south of Jehol kept the wires hot with reports of Japanese bombing, destruction and invasion of U. S. mission property. In Peiping Japanese Chargé d' Affaires S. Nakayama announced last week Japan's willingness to make reparations. It had already made a cash settlement for the bombing of a French Catholic Mission south of the Wall ($600, silver) and had paid rental for the occupation by Japanese troops of the U. S. Methodist Mission at Shanhaikwan ($22, gold...
...loyal Chargé d'Affaires Azodi all praise for emphasizing that four years after the coup d'état Persia's Majlis (Parliament) formally deposed Ahmed Shah, formally elevated Reza Shah to the Peacock Throne...