Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis Rollin from the Ministry of Commerce. As new Minister of Commerce he chose Leon Barety, an exponent of closer relations with Italy. To the key post of permanent Secretary General of Foreign Affairs, since 1933 occupied by Alexis Leger ("greatest living diplomat"), Premier Reynaud appointed Frangois Charles-Roux, envoy to the Vatican, an expert on Papal foreign policy...
...Condemned as pampering papacy President Roosevelt's appointment of Steelman Myron C. Taylor as his personal peace envoy to the Vatican, urged Episcopalian Taylor's immediate recall, even at this time when the President was pulling all the strings he could to keep Italy...
Recalling recent photographs of loaded and peripatetic gallows wheeled through Polish village streets by Gestapo pacifiers, Norwegians awaited with uncertain emotions the arrival of Hitler's envoy and Himmler's bullyboys...
...Wang prestige, Japanese army bigwigs in China who operate the puppet strings have been demanding that a top-rank Japanese statesman be sent as Tokyo's first Ambassador to the new Nanking puppet show. This week General Nobuyuki Abe, Premier of Japan until last January, was named Special Envoy and Ambassador Plenipotentiary by the Son of Heaven...
Immediate responses from the Bay State's two Senators brought encouragement to A. I. L. leaders who had asked for an energetic protest against Cromwell's "pro-Ally" outburst because of "its flagrant violation of our diplomatic integrity." They had wired support of any move for the envoy's recall...