Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment Sophocles Venizelos gave himself four main portfolios (foreign affairs, war, navy, air), divided another six among three fellow ministers. At week's end occupied Greece sent her first envoy to the new exile government: George Papandreou, 56-year-old leader of the Social Democratic Party, colleague of the Premier's late father, the great Eleutherios Venizelos. Bitterly, passionately, the refugee spoke of Greek suffering under the Nazi heel, urged national unity: "From their graves our dead demand...
Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I ace and, on occasion, envoy extraordinary for Secretary of War Stimson: "Sorrow will come to a million American homes...
...Ankara, Stirbey talked at length with British diplomats. The Russians ignored him. Then, just before he left for Cairo, Stalin switched his instructions, had his envoy urge the Prince to call first of all on Nicholas Novikov, ranking Russian plenipotentiary in the Middle East...
...channeled into more representative endeavors. He worked in the Prague Foreign Office, as chargé d'affaires in Washington, as Dr. Benes' private secretary, in the Czech legation in London. From 1925 until he resigned in protest against the Munich deal, he was Czechoslovak envoy to the Court of St. James's. In a dinner speech after his resignation Jan Masaryk said, in spite of everything: "I want nothing better for the world than that all countries should have the same qualities as these islands of England...
Died. Floris ter Meulen, 63, socialite Dutch international banker; an unofficial envoy for The Netherlands; of a fall or jump from his office window; nearly four years after his daughter's similar death; in Manhattan's Pine Street...