Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brigadier General Antonio A. Guerrero was appointed special envoy of Mexico to European countries. His mission is concerned with " 1924 models in war materials "; he is to get bids on the latest artillery pieces and rifles; and he is to inspect the military systems used in the house of war-Europe. His tour will embrace Italy, France, Belgium, Germany. On his return to Mexico City he will submit a plan to the War Ministry for the modernization of the Mexican Army...
When Cuba needed money (in January, 1921) General Crowder was despatched to Havana by President Wilson as Special Envoy. At the request of the President of Cuba, he was continued as Special Envoy by President Harding. He gave friendly advice, which was followed. The Cuban Government reorganized the Government Departments, effected economies, dismissed grafters. Washington approved a loan of $50,000,000. The Cuban Government was grateful...
...pourparlers ended without a communiqué from either participant. That the break is not final was indicated by the fact that M. Kawakami, Japanese negotiator, entertained Adolph A. Joffe, late Soviet Envoy to Peking and representative at the Tokyo Conference, at a farewell dinner given at the Thukiji Hotel...
...building was once offered to the U. S. Government as an Embassy, but Congress declined to appropriate the moderate amount asked, for reasons of "Jeffersonian simplicity," which balked at a Royal Palace to house the envoy of a Republic. During the war Queen Margherita turned her palace into a hospital for the wounded Italian soldiers...
...Sakhalin, and his representative, Mr. Templeton, has been in Moscow for months without being able to bring the matter to a head with the Soviet authorities. Meanwhile Japan wishes to buy northern Sakhalin for $75,000,000 from Russia, who demands $500,000, 000 for it. While the Soviet envoy, Adolph A. Joffe, is deadlocked with the Japanese in Tokyo, the Soviet leaders in Moscow are apparently flirting with Sinclair in order to induce the Japanese to raise their...