Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Envoy said that Italy's only interest in Spain was to prevent the spread of communism and that Italy had no desire to propagate Fascism in the United States...
...Muscat. In addition to reciprocal, most-favored-nation treatment of imports & exports, it provided that U. S. citizens rescued from ships wrecked on Oman's rocky coast must be entertained at the Sultan's expense. When he departed from Oman in the U. S. sloop Peacock, Envoy Roberts left behind an invitation for the Sultan to return his call in Washington...
...Washington last week, Envoy Roberts' call was finally returned by Sultan Seyed Syeed Bin's plump, brown-skinned, 27-year-old descendant, Muscat and Oman's Sultan Saiyid Said bin Taimur. Having traveled in the U. S. for three weeks incognito as Mr. Said, the Sultan managed to reach town one day ahead of Albania's Princesses Myzeyen, Ruhijé and Maxhide, resumed his royal status in Washington's Union Station where he emerged from his train dressed in native costume of brown robe, white undershirt, jeweled turban and dagger. Promptly and rudely nicknamed "Sultan...
...thin ice, Neville Chamberlain an nounced that "temporarily" the new Foreign Secretary would be Viscount Halifax. Pro-German but High-Church and idealistic, Lord Halifax-who "sees the in scrutable hand of Divine Providence at work almost everywhere," even in Germany and Italy-was Mr. Chamberlain's personal envoy last November to Herr Hitler. But His Majesty's Government this week obviously were thinking almost exclusively about Rome...
...rejected Miss Hellman's guest column. Hearst editors condemned her account as Loyalist propaganda and brushed aside Host Winchell's stubborn defense of his guest. Two days later the Hearst New York Journal and American favored ex-Japanese Ambassador W. Cameron Forbes with a big headline: "EX-ENVOY FORBES HAILS FRANCO RULE-People Happy and Have Plenty in Nationalist Spain, He Says...