Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edda's Boy. Ciano, who has one of the largest vanities in Europe, was eased into a seat on the Fascist Grand Council and then appointed Ambassador to the Vatican. As a Council member he saved face in the Party. As Vatican envoy he kept some of his social prestige (and was in a position to meet diplomatic representatives of enemy countries). He needed these cushions for his ego because the "change of guard" removed him from his position as heir apparent to the Italian dictatorship, and from his easy access to the public trough. Both the Italian people...
...President Roosevelt's actions in two of his recent appointments clearly point to selfish political debt-paying. Edward J. Flynn, nominated to one of the nation's most responsible positions as ambassador and envoy to Australia and the Far East, was morally questionable, disregarding his capacity for such a post. Had his nomination been confirmed, the Australian government would have found itself in the humiliating position of having to tolerate a man it never could respect. Second, ex-Senator Josh Lee, wholly unqualified for the job, was confirmed through "senatorial courtesy" to a position on the Civil Aeronautics Board...
Thus New Hampshire's smooth, sarcastic Republican Senator Styles Bridges resumed his attack one day last week on Franklin Roosevelt's appointment of Democratic National Chairman Edward J. Flynn as Minister to Australia and special envoy in the South Pacific (TIME, Jan. 18). Styles Bridges had sighted political pay dirt; he had a little score to settle with the Administration for digging up potent, ex-Republican Governor Francis P. Murphy to run against him in last November's election...
...national uprising. Barring any new, sensational proof of Senator Bridges' charges, his record is remarkably clean for one who has been a political boss-local (The Bronx) and national-for 22 years. Ed Flynn's unswerving loyalty to Franklin Roosevelt might recommend him as a personal envoy. But of the talents necessary for a representative of the U.S. people, Frank Knox's Chicago Daily News said: "He is not a diplomat. He has had no foreign experience. He has had no military experience. He has no particular familiarity with Australia or with Pacific problems...
...Washington, blue-eyed, balding little Gaston Henry-Haye. The State Department waited for M. Henry-Haye to come after his passport, finally dispatched George T. Summerlin, Chief of the Division of Protocol, to the handsome, police-guarded French Embassy. For him to give the documents to the anxious, worried envoy took only a moment...