Word: dyneley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Dyneley Prince, retiring U. S. Minister to Jugoslavia, returned to teach Slavonic languages at Columbia University. His position had been held open since 1921 when President Harding appointed him Minister to Denmark. This week Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler was to talk to his students about New York politics...
Best linguist in the U. S. Diplomatic Service is probably U. S. Minister to Jugoslavia Dr. John Dyneley Prince who prides himself on being able to talk with almost any other diplomat in the latter's native tongue. Once, at a Belgrade diplomatic soiree, Dr. Prince realized that he was stumped, could not talk to the Albanian Minister in Albanian. Casually they chatted in Turkish. Later the Albanian Minister said with difficulty to a U. S. matron in Albanian English: "What a strange you Americans are! What a silly! You hire a Turk to be your Minister to Jugoslavia...