Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus a Bombay rhymester last week expressed the fear of the whole anti-Axis world that Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's newly arrived special envoy to India, would be unable to resolve India's conflicting political demands and thus promote her war effort...
...beyond doubt, Sir Stafford had before him one of history's most difficult problems in statesmanship. In one respect he had already made what seemed an excellent start. As Britain's envoy it would be his privilege, if he wished, to stay in the Viceroy's elephantine palace in New Delhi. This red sandstone and white granite symbol of British rule stands on a hill overlooking the city and lifts a copper dome 177 feet against the hot Indian skies. Under the dome a huge crystal chandelier lights a marble throne room bounded by ten-foot torches...
Since the return of Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal envoy to the Pope, the U.S. has been informally represented at the Vatican by his assistant, Career Diplomat Harold H. Tittmann Jr. After Italy entered the war, Tittmann had to move to an apartment in Vatican City, to keep from being interned...
...devoted wife who enjoys an occasional flirtation. The swift destruction of Poland halts their theatre careers and they become enrolled in the underground movement. From there on the film concerns the extremely clever plotting of the group of actors to outwit the Gestapo and a fake Polish envoy...
Perhaps Jack Benny is no great shakes at Hamlet, but his Josef Tura is a beautiful piece of comic playing, especially when he impersonates the envoy and various Gestapo chiefs. Miss Lombard plays with consummate skill, warmth and humor. One forgets this is her last role, so compelling and captivating is her performance. The supporting cast is tops, particularly Felix Bressart, as a frustrated spear carrier, who dreams of playing Shylock; and Tom Dugan who turns in a wonderfully ludicrous impersonation of Hitler...