Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sounded Washington with proposals that a U. S. citizen chairman the 1932 Conference. Germany's representative proposed the U. S. diplomat supposed to be President Hoover's favorite: Ambassador Hugh Simons Gibson. The Irish Free State, seconded by Norway and Sweden, proposed Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes. Other names frequently mentioned: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow. But the reaction of Washington to both proposals last week was negative, and the League left the chairmanship open. The French continued to boom Edouard Benes, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. In London during the week Ambassador Dawes (lawyer by trade...
...Significance. In the long list of Popes, Pius IX (1846-78) ranked as a great dogmatist. Far more important than the loss of the Papal States were his dogmas of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary and of Papal Infallibility. Leo XIII (1878-1903) was "worldly," a brilliant diplomat. Pius X (1903-14) was not much interested in world politics. He was "spiritual." Benedict XV (1914-22) tried to pacify the warring world, without avail. Pius XI (1922-) has had almost as great an effect on the Catholic world's religious life as Pius X. He surpasses...
...observant foreign diplomat said privately afterward, "It was a wedding without the bride." What the Indian Round Table Conference can do is to rehash the Simon Report and another made last week by Viceroy Lord Irwin (see col. 3), write its own report, possibly agree on a draft text for a new Indian Constitution, finally present all this as a fait accompli to the Indian National Congress, Gandhi & Friends...
...Uruguay. Two more days passed before the U. S. and Great Britain recognized Revolutionist Vargas almost simultaneously (see p. 16). France followed a day later. The New Cabinet is considered "strong." Foreign Minister Afranio de Mello Franco used to represent Brazil at League of Nations meetings, is the Brazilian diplomat best known in Europe. Minister of Finance Jose Maria Whitaker is a former President of the Banco do Brasil and of the Banco Commercial do Estado de Sao Paulo. Acts of the new Cabinet: 1) declared the Brazilian Congress retroactively dissolved on Oct. 3 last, the day the revolution began...
Mexicans still speak knowingly of how Comrade Alexandra Kollontay, first Soviet female envoy, met onetime Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles in Berlin, crossed the Atlantic "on the same boat," remained in Mexico as Minister "until they quarreled" (TIME, Dec. 19, 1927). Last week this scarlet diplomat, wearing a black taffeta gown, drew about her shoulders a soft chinchilla wrap upon which blazed the Soviet Order of the Red Star, stepped into a Royal Coach. The equipage was that of Gustaf V, King of the Swedes. At a merry clip Comrade Kollontay whirled through the streets of Stockholm, alighted...