Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall man with a weathered, homely face, in which there was the visible touch of greatness, stepped briskly down the ramp of the plane from China. Three months, almost to the hour, after he had left for Chungking, U.S. Special Envoy George Catlett Marshall was back in Washington. He had time for a broad, boyish grin and two kisses for his waiting wife, quick handshakes for a cluster of welcoming dignitaries. Then he hurried away, in a long black Packard, to report to the White House on the most significant mission undertaken by a U.S. citizen since...
...experiment in applied democracy, the Special Envoy set up his main laboratory in Chungking, in a Western-style villa of faced stone called "Happiness Gardens," above the confluence of the Kialing and the Yangtze. Into the living room, deeply carpeted and warmed against the damp Szechwan winter by a charcoal-burning fireplace, came leaders of China to pay their respects, to present gift scrolls, and to argue their cases before Ma Hsieh-erh, as "Marshall" is transliterated into Chinese...
...Definition. At first the Special Envoy listened much, spoke little. He was direct, straightforward, unfailingly polite. Soon his visitors referred to him as "The Old Professor," a token of esteem in China, where the scholar still ranks above the other three classes (farmers, artisans and merchants) of society...
Died. Dr. Antonio Caso, 62, philosopher, onetime rector of Mexico's National University, ofttime envoy (to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay); of a heart attack; in Mexico City. Reported last words: "Finally I am going to know...
...special envoy hurried away, the speaker's lamp started burning a hole through the lampshade beret...