Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baron von Maltzan, an Under Secretary at the Foreign Ministry, is aged 47. Born at Mecklenburg, educated at the Universities of Bonn and Breslau, the Baron first thought of carving out a career for himself as a soldier of the Kaiser. On second thought, he decided to become a diplomat; and, after having risen to the heights of a first lieutenancy, he left the Army shortly before breaking into the third decade of his life...
...diplomat, he saw service at Rio de Janeiro, Christiania, St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Peking. At the latter place, he met Edith Gruson, daughter of a wealthy Magdeburg steel manufacturer, married her. They have one daughter. The Baroness is reputed to be one of Berlin's most popular hostesses and to be well known by the U. S. colony...
Commenting upon his appointment, the Liberal Vossische Zeitung called him "the ablest diplomat which Germany has at her disposal." Said the Catholic Germania : "His familiarity with Germany's foreign policy renders him eminently suited to the Washington post...
...doyen, dean or senior member of the diplomatic corps obtains this official honor by virtue of having had the longest term of service at a given Capital; although, of course an Ambassador always outranks a Minister. The doyen (and subordinate members of his Embassy), followed by other Ambassadors (and their suites) in point of seniority, heads the official Diplomatic list published by the State Department; he takes precedent at social functions; he is the first diplomat to receive the official call of a newly arriving Ambassador; he heads the diplomatic corps as a body on ceremonial occasions; and, in emergency...
...also a Gimbel-Louis Jr. Married. Rev. Tertius Van Dyke, 38, Pastor of the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Cannon, of New Haven, church secretary; at New Haven. The ceremony was performed by the groom's father, Dr. Henry Van Dyke, famed author-diplomat, onetime U.S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg...