Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's attention (see p. 15). After the coup d'état he ordered three U. S. destroyers to Cuban waters "to protect the lives and persons of American citizens," announced that his Government had no intention of intervention. ¶ President Roosevelt transferred another career diplomat when he appointed white-crested Charles Stetson Wilson, now Minister to Rumania, to be Minister to Jugoslavia. ¶ After a week in Washington, President Roosevelt planned to return to Hyde Park to finish his vacation. Over Labor Day week-end he would cruise back to the Capital aboard Vincent Astor...
...Provisional President. Not acceptable to Ambassador Welles or to the Cuban army officers who had staged the coup d'état, General Herrera waited only for Congress to rush through a bill permitting him to hand the Provisional Presidency over to a "civilian neutral" and retired Cuban diplomat, quiet, scholarly, short-statured Carlos Manuel de Cespedes (pronounced "Sess-pay-dess...
...announced the Government's readiness to adjust its contracts with NRA subscribers confronted with higher manufacturing costs. He wrote a letter to a Philadelphia woman who named her baby girl Nira, chuckled over the discovery of a town called Nira (pop. 20) in Iowa. ¶ Another career diplomat was promoted last week when President Roosevelt appointed Arthur Bliss Lane, now counselor of embassy at Mexico City, to be Minister to Nicaragua...
...President Roosevelt last week stepped Career Diplomat Sheldon Whitehouse up from Minister to Guatemala to Minister to Colombia. An urbane gentleman with wavy hair and elegant manners. Minister Whitehouse was educated at Eton and Yale, got into the Foreign Service as private secretary to the late great Whitelaw Reid when the New York Tribune publisher was Ambassador to Great Britain. As counsel of the Paris embassy in 1927 he was roundly flayed in Congress when it was discovered that sleuths had been sent after New York's Mayor Walker as that playboy took his fun in Paris...
...From volcano-cursed Nicaragua to volcano-cursed Guatemala President Roosevelt last week shifted Minister Matthew Elting Hanna (no kin to the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna) to succeed Mr. Whitehouse. Graduate of West Point, Mr. Hanna turned career diplomat in 1917. From Managua's 1931 earthquake Minister Hanna emerged a local hero...