Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moreover, Prince Ras Taffari is of a turn of mind no less inquiring than Rasselas.† He would, guessed travelers, desire as envoy from any other state, a representative of that state's dominant race. Ras Taffari would want to learn about China from a Chinaman, not a white man; about India from a Hindu, not an Anglo-Saxon; about the U. S. from a Caucasian, not a Negro...
Less than a year ago she was sent to Mexico City by the Soviet government with the diplomatic rank of an "envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary." President Plutarco Elias Calles and other gallant Mexicans bowed as they kissed the hand of the first Ministress to Mexico (TIME, Jan. 3, 1927). Suddenly, a few months afterward she was recalled...
Silk-hatted, frock-coated, begloved, bespatted M. Bogomolov arrived in Warsaw to present his credentials to Polish President Ignatz Moscicki as Soviet Minister to Poland. A company of Polish soldiery accompanied the new envoy to the presidential palace...
Exasperated, the Paris press in particular looked upon the action as little less than impudence and forthwith began a campaign look-ing .toward his recall. The French Government was constrained to ask its envoy in Moscow, M. Jean Herbette, to make friendly recommendations to the Kremlin to this effect. But the Bolshevik authorities remained deaf to the French request and dumb so far as M. Rakovsky was concerned...
Russo-Polish feeling has been running high since Soviet Envoy Vojkov was murdered in Warsaw (TiME, June 27), despite the fact that the incident was, officially, amicably settled between the two countries. It is suggested that the killing of the Pole Traikowicz, was to some extent due to the bad feeling over the murder of Envoy Vojkov...