Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Agustin Edwards, 63, Chile's No. 1 publisher, longtime diplomat; in Santiago. His best-known publishing property is El Mercurio. He was at various times Minister of the Interior, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister to Spain and Italy, Ambassador to Britain (1935-38), and once president of the League of Nations Assembly...
Naval airmen soon realized that Admiral Towers and Captain Towers were two different birds. Fighting Jack had become a diplomat. At a recent committee hearing a Congressman put a searching question to Admiral Towers, then said: "I'd like this answer from Captain Jack Towers . . . and not from Admiral Towers, who is taking orders from too many line admirals...
...then, under special pressure, a Japanese diplomat startles the world with a statement of plain, simple candor, and such a statement came last week from bony little Kenkichi Yoshizawa, head of Japan's economic mission to The Netherlands East Indies. He had been politely informed last fortnight that The Netherlands East Indies had not the least idea of allowing Japan increased shipments of rubber, oil and tin. Speaking over the telephone to the Tokyo press, Commissioner Yoshizawa said: "The choice before us would seem to be either statesmanship or physical force...
...Baron is now getting his chance to work in the Middle East. He is said recently to have been invaluable to Fritz Grobba, roving Nazi diplomat, in stirring up trouble among the Iraqi. Constantly expressing his Hitler loyalty, Baron von Oppenheim raises his hand and heils even when he is talking on the telephone alone in his room. It happens that the little Baron Max is a Jew whom the Führer raised to Honorary Aryan status...
...only in London did M.O.I. bestir itself. In the U.S. the British information services got a new Director-General. He was Sir Gerald Campbell, unofficious, efficient No. 2 British diplomat in the U.S. Like Beaverbrook, at his first press conference in Manhattan he told newsmen to fire away...