Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never before had a British King gone forth to welcome a foreign diplomat, but there was precedent for his action. A few weeks ago Franklin Roosevelt went down the Potomac to greet the King's new Ambassador, Lord Halifax. Obviously the bonds of common purpose were stronger than protocol...
Victor Andres Belaunde, famous Peruvian diplomat, will speak on "Nationalistic Differences in South America" in Winthrop House Junior Common Room at 8 o'clock this evening. Belaunde's lecture will be the first of a series on Latin American problems sponsored by the Government and History Departments...
...Ishii is a pink-cheeked, affable, stogy-smoking diplomat who was once (1929-30) Japanese Consul in New York. Last December he became spokesman for the Japanese Cabinet, replacing the somewhat less affable Foreign Office spokesman, slightly cockeyed, definitely popeyed, short, swart Yakichiro Suma. Last week Diplomat Ishii talked the Japanese Foreign Office into a lot of trouble...
Spain's Problem. Whatever he may be as a soldier, II Duce is a very good diplomat. He would not have dreamed of going to Franco as a suppliant. Instead, he told El Caudillo some of his friend Adolf Hitler's plans for the conquest of Britain and for the New Order in Europe after the war. El Caudillo was sympathetic. He had nothing but the warmest wishes for the success of the Axis plans. He would like to participate, but there was a little matter of bread...
...Roosevelt believes that Britain's Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin and other British labor leaders will grow increasingly powerful during the war, be still more powerful after it. Ambassador Winant knows the leaders of British labor from his days in Geneva, has their confidence as no career diplomat or wealthy businessman like Joseph Kennedy could hope to gain it. The desperate urgency of Britain's plight may have united Britons more than doctrinaire and class-conscious U. S. citizens can believe possible; but the U. S. is taking no chance of being caught unawares if dissatisfaction develops...