Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ambassador to Cuba Sumner Welles, who had flown up from Havana. For weeks President Grau San Martin had been agitating the removal of Mr. Welles, on the grounds that his sympathies still lay with the de Cespedes regime. Following the U. S. precedent of never removing an envoy under fire without a policy change, President Roosevelt after a five-hour conference persuaded Mr. Welles to return to his post after a quick trip to Washington to see Acting Secretary of State Phillips...
Since the Russian Embassy in Washington was vacated by the last Imperial envoy, 16 years have passed. In 1919 a favorable report on Bolshevik Russia by a young diplomat named William Christian Bullitt was rejected by Woodrow Wilson in Paris; no one believed Bullitt when he insisted that the Bolsheviks would remain in power. A roly-poly Russian named Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was refused a visa when Lenin appointed him Soviet Ambassador...
...Ambassador William Edward Dodd. Contemplative Professor Dodd has written for a recent issue of The Uni-versity of Chicago Magazine a characteristic piece headed "The Education of an Ambassador." "Into this quiet life," he writes, "came the call of President Roosevelt of June 8 to go as envoy to Germany in the hope of improving the relations of the two countries. I hesitated and took counsel with the University authorities only to accept." Ever since he reached Berlin last July, Ambassador Dodd has been taking counsel with the State Department about assaults and indignities meted out to U. S. citizens...
...Cespedes he gave an inaugural garden party at 9:30 a. m. on the wide terrace of his handsome house. Flashing-eyed Cuban ladies embraced each other and their escorts with patriotic fervor as eight judges of the Cuban Supreme Court arrived majestically in their black robes. No foreign envoy, not even U. S. Ambassador Welles, was present. Amid sizzling heat Dr. Cespedes. perspiring in formal morning clothes, took this brief oath: "I swear faithfully to fulfill the duties of President of the Republic and enforce the Constitution and the laws!" Going inside from the garden terrace he signed...
Among the other well-known recipients of degrees are Sir Ronald Lindsay, British ambassador to the United States, and Andre de Laboulaye, the French envoy. The award of these two degrees is regarded as especially opportune coming, as it does, during the World Economic Conference now meeting in London...