Word: cordiale
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...Pope's hand. Then the Episcopal steelman handed Pius XII two letters. One was from Mr. Roosevelt to "Your Holiness," in which he introduced Mr. Taylor as "a very old friend of mine ... in whom I repose the utmost confidence." Through Mr. Taylor, the President sent "my cordial greetings to you, my old and good friend." Both letters referred to the Ambassador simply as "a channel of communication...
...landed at Naples with his shipmate, Myron Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican, and headed for Rome. Next day sombre Mr. Taylor called on the Papal Secretary of State. Mr. Welles spent 90 minutes with Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, spent 60 minutes with a cordial II Duce. On the following day he caught a midnight train to Berlin to see Hitler. Italian newspapers that had almost ignored the envoys' arrival blossomed out about the length and cordiality of Welles-Ciano, Welles-Mussolini talks. And the radio announced officially that Sumner Welles had handed Benito...
...Portland only President Roosevelt rated more flashlight bulbs; he had drawn no such crowds when he was a candidate in 1932. Back up the mountain hurried Candidate Dewey, to Salt Lake City, where Republicans were cordial to the point of frenzy; to the Snake River Valley of Idaho, where he lauded the independence of homegrown cooperatives; to Boise past the irrigation projects, the forest reserves, the oil reserves, the region of Thousand Springs, where underground rivers pour from the cliffs in enough volume to provide water for all the cities of the U. S. ("Here in our own America...
...freely-elected Indian legislature and cabinet at New Delhi. The Viceroy had half a mind to grant the Mahatma an all-Indian cabinet, reserving, however, the portfolios of Defense and Foreign Affairs for the British Raj. The Mahatma sternly declined and the conference broke up. The Viceroy issued a cordial communiqué; the Mahatma, the next morning at dawn, invited newsmen to listen to a "sunrise soliloquy" delivered by himself...
...peace could be negotiated. But all knew that the Balkans, in order to keep the peace that in this generation they have come to hold so dear, would have to go on performing acrobatic tricks of neutrality. No concrete results were expected, none resulted. But it was all very cordial and pleasant, it left everybody feeling good, and at the end it was decided to renew the Balkan Pact for another seven years...