Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Matthew Elting Hanna, 62, long-time Latin-American diplomat, U. S. Minister to Guatemala since 1933; in Tucson, Ariz...
...conceived for Britain's "Sailor King" was not, however, enough to cause him to half-staff the White House flag, as Roosevelt I did when the British Ambassador died in Washington in 1902. Then T. R. explained that it was not because Lord Pauncefote had been a distinguished diplomat, but because he was a "damned good fellow...
What determined little Japanese Foreign Minister Koki Hirota smokes is no peace pipe. Although His Excellency is a civilian, Japan's wary militarists have come little by little to the conclusion that here at last is a Japanese diplomat of their own stuff. They freely declared to foreign correspondents in Tokyo last week their "regret" that the death of King George must have largely crowded out of the world press the "historic" address delivered last week to the Japanese Diet by suave but hard Mr. Hirota...
Died. Baron Frederic Koranyi, 66 Hungarian statesman and diplomat; Minister of Finance (1919) who reorganized the Hungarian financial administrate: after the Soviet regime of Bela Kun; in Budapest...
...Baldwin, an able politician, and Captain Eden, an able diplomat, cleverly left open avenues of retreat from The Deal. They professed that the League of Nations was to decide everything. Three days later at Geneva suave Eden, although the whole London Press was printing columns about the Government's "reversal of policy," had the British crust to say officially: "The policy of His Majesty's Government remains unchanged...