Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jovial Major General Patrick Jay Hurley, who has been coal miner, cowboy, mule skinner, lawyer to the Choctaws, buck private and presidential envoy extraordinary, began his newest job: U.S. Ambassador to China. His letters of credence had not arrived from Washington, but Chungking waved aside such formalities. In the American Embassy Pat Hurley held his first press conference, told reporters how he had taken part in parleys between Chiang Kai-shek's Government and the Chinese Communists. It was a strangely unself-conscious tale...
Donald Marr Nelson, U.S. special envoy to China, was back in Washington after a strenuous month's trip around the globe. The ears of the ex-WPBoss still rang with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's encomium: "If it [the Nelson mission] had happened as much as one year ago, I believe the present situation would be far better." To Franklin Roosevelt, Don Nelson brought a heartening report. With the Generalissimo's full cooperation, the Nelson mission had launched at Chungking a Chinese...
...Problem. It would not be an easy fight. One of the main problems confronting T.V. was a settlement of China's civil war. Last week a truce between the Chungking Government and Communist Yenan seemed in the making. Communist envoy Chou En-lai had delivered Yenan's latest demand for a coalition government. Chiang Kai-shek still shook his head; he was "still opposed, as the head of any independent nation must be, to an armed state within a state. But he had made a counteroffer. Its details not disclosed, Chungking said authoritatively that the Generalissimo...
...France wants a pact with Spain, but not with "gangster Franco ... the ally of Hitler and the enemy of France." (In the diplomatic gallery Spanish Envoy José de Sangroniz listened stonily. From the Assembly came the day's noisiest cheers, shouts: "Très bien! Très bien...
None of these shifts ranked in importance with the appointment last week of cool, tough career Diplomat Jefferson Caffery, 57, ex-Ambassador to Brazil, as U.S. envoy to Paris, with the rank of ambassador. Forthwith the French gaily opened up their big, chateau-shaped Embassy in Washington, closed since the 1942 departure of Vichyman Gaston Henri-Haye. Paris should be a hot diplomatic spot, which will be no novelty to Careerist Caffery, who has served U.S. interests abroad through six administrations. A Louisianian who studied to be a lawyer, Caffery went to work for the State Department when...