Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midnight signing of the Rickett concession. Equally footless was his loss of temper in accusing Secretary Hull of "gross misjudgment." This petulant error Chargé d'Affaires Engert erased by denying the assertions of the Emperor's own entourage that he expressed himself in violent terms. According to Diplomat Engert the Emperor merely voiced "regret" that Standard Oil is not to lead the U. S. Marines to the rescue...
...behind Promoter Rickett. Few minutes earlier, unknown to Mr. Hull, Vice President Dundas and his chief, Board Chairman George S. Walden of Standard Vacuum Oil, had sent in their cards to Chief Wallace Murray of the State Department's Division of Near Eastern African Affairs. In his shirtsleeves, Diplomat Murray was fingering a pencil and thinking to himself as he looked out the window that in Ethiopia it must be raining too. Putting on his coat, Mr. Murray prepared to receive Standard Oil, remarking to his secretary, "I wonder what they want...
Poker-faced, Diplomat Murray heard the unhappy oilmen out. After they left he dashed to Secretary Hull, who suggested that Standard Oil return at 3 p. m. Sharp at 3, the oilmen and Diplomat Murray were closeted with stiff, didactic Dr. Stanley Hornbeck, Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs. Dr. Hornbeck soon went downstairs to tell Secretary Hull that Standard Oil had arrived, the actual introduction of Messrs. Walden & Dundas being made by Near East Chief Murray...
Later in the day at Geneva a decision was handed out on the original Italo-Ethiopian armed clash at Ualual (pronounced walwal), the No. 1 specific causus belli. The arbiter, Dr. Niccolas Socrate Politis, a big-eared, beady-eyed little Greek Diplomat who for years has been a pushing League careerist, decided solemnly that "from an international standpoint" neither Italy nor Ethiopia was to blame for that bloody encounter in which 32 Italians and 107 Ethiopians were killed...
When he was himself a small, Ethiopian orphan, the future diplomat attached himself to a marauding band of British troops who in 1868 burst into his country under General Napier on what Queen Victoria called a "punitive expedition." The little waif had an appealing way with him. A Scottish officer took him along to India, gave him the name "Martin," had him educated as a physician in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Dr. Martin retired on a pension after 29 years of duty in the Indian Medical Corps. About this time Ethiopia's great Emperor Menelik heard of Dr. Martin, summoned...