Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kurt Heinrich Rieth, onetime German diplomat, undercover agent for Adolf Hitler, had been living at the Waldorf for two months. Federal agents, who called him the "No. 1 Nazi now in the U.S.," knew he was there. They were keeping their eye on him to see what he would do when last fortnight the New York Herald Tribune forced their hand, broke a page 1 story about Dr. Rieth's activities...
...State Department, which has devoted a lot of thought to Iceland lately, showed instant signs of appreciation. The State Department announced that a new vice consul was being dispatched to represent the U.S. in Reykjavik. He was tall, blond, coolheaded, young (33) Career Diplomat Henry Bartlett Wells, known as a highly efficient fellow who has turned in excellent reports from all his posts, last of which was at the U.S. Legation in Managua, Nicaragua...
...young Hamiltons did receive a wedding present from, Nazi Diplomat Joachim von Ribbentrop. And one month after World War II broke out, the Duke wrote the London Times: "We will not grudge Germany Lebensraum provided that Lebensraum is not made on the grave of other nations. ... I look forward to the day when a trusted Germany comes into...
...security of the Western Hemisphere that has occurred since Napoleon III invaded Mexico on the eve of the Civil War. For by the action of the Vichy Government Hitler ... is now facing the continents of the Western Hemisphere.' Every French officer who adheres to Vichy, every French diplomat who adheres to Vichy, and every gun, ship and airplane they can command, is now under the orders of the Axis...
...Cantabridgians ran across each other in Harvard Square when the Ibis wandered out of McBride's just a touch woozy and ran into the famous anti-Lampoon diplomat who is bringing suit against the funny mag for libel...