Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gaston Henry-Haye, 54, is a sleek, well-nourished little diplomat who used to represent Vichyfrance in Washington. Fifteen months ago, when Vichy broke off relations with the U.S., M. Henry-Haye was tenderly interned (along with his pedigreed Dalmatian and his solicitous staff) in a $24-a-day suite at swank, luxurious Hotel Hershey, in Pennsylvania's pleasant Lebanon valley...
Last week, six days after his Government broke with the Axis (TIME, Feb. 7), Argentine Ambassador Adrian Escobar arrived in Washington. His reception was the coldest the U.S. has given any high Latin American diplomat since the beginning of the Good Neighbor Policy. Reason: Argentina's authoritarian Government still had to show genuine friendship for the U.S., clean out its anti-democratic elements (President Ramirez prevailed upon three notably pro-Nazi Cabinet members to withdraw their resignations...
Jerphanion, now vice president of the Radical-Socialist Party. He delivers a long, dull speech (which Romains unblushingly describes as "great"). With an ex-diplomat he investigates a death among the mountain people of his native province-a death which might be from hard conditions of life in a snowbound farmhouse without medical aid, or might be murder...
...only woman career diplomat in the Polish government prefers Harvard men. Her name is Miss Natalie Askenazy, and she says. "There is something unique about a Harvard man which sets him apart from a Yale man and/or any other college...
Last Sunday night at the Ford Hall Forum in John Hancock Hall in Boston she related her experiences as "A Woman Diplomat in Russia." Addressing an audience of approximately 3000, she stated that the people of Poland expect America to rebuild a "real Polish democracy for a real and sound Polish populace...