Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Larz Anderson '88, soldier and distinguished diplomat, well known to Harvard men for his gifts to the University, died yesterday in Virginia, according to reports received by Boston friends. The death of the former ambassador to Japan was caused by pneumonia...
Horse Trade. The delegates in Washington well knew, however, that their job was more than finding dry-as-dust facts. They were there to trade and they knew it. Otherwise the Japanese delegation would not have been headed by able Juitsu Kitaoka, a small, dapper diplomat with a reputation for guile. Otherwise Britain would not have sent a delegation of 210 members including Lieut. Colonel Anthony John Muirhead, Parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of Labor, or India her High Commissioner in London, Sir Firoz Khan Noon. Czechoslovakia would not have sent her Minister of Social Welfare Jaromir Necas, nor would...
...want another woman minister. However, with W. Forbes Morgan, Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, and Senate Leader Joseph T. Robinson as her sponsors, Mrs. Harriman's cause was in good hands. Norway, the first nation to grant woman suffrage, was an obvious post for a woman diplomat. Last week Norway had only to say "yes" in order to have Daisy Harriman show the Scandinavians how entertaining should be done in a U. S. legation...
...leakiest foreign office in Europe is the French, but only when a news leak suits the high policy of M. Alexis Leger, the permanent undersecretary. Greatest diplomat of today, M. Leger has the one striking limitation that he almost never is out of France and some of his major coups are a trifle too Parisian. Last week a few prominent journalists working in France were permitted to read what was supposed to be the entire report of the French Secret Service on what happened in Addis Ababa following the bomb attack on Italian Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani (TIME, March 1). This...
...Paris Prison La Petite Roquette last week Dictator Mussolini's self-styled onetime intimate, Mile Madeleine de Fontanges, shooter fortnight ago of a French diplomat whom she accused of breaking up her affair (TIME, March 29), wrote day & night with the energy of a newspaperwoman scorned. The police had impounded her diary and she was writing it anew, from memory-about 30,000 words...