Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berlin. Berlin's good weather ended with Envoy Welles's arrival. No flags, no bands, no military escorts were at the station. No U. S. flags, but the flaring white, light blue & red pennants of conquered Slovakia flapped in the snow over the Hotel Adlon where he unofficially stayed. A Slovakian propaganda mission, headed by young, black-haired, shouting Slovakian Propaganda Minister Sano Mach, pulled up at the front of the hotel at the same moment Welles's car drew up. Unobtrusive in a dark suit and black soft hat, poker-faced Sumner Welles gave no sign...
...Britain's power, an end of the British Empire, as the price of peace. Whether or not the Führer shouted such claims to Sumner Welles in the Chancellery, they were certainly in the inspired stories from Berlin. The arrival of the official U. S. envoy had smoked out the German Revolution's forthright demands...
...Britain; reports of Hitler's real peace terms were rumored in city after city. But no official acts encouraged them. As Europeans noted with fear in their hearts the brightening skies, the lengthening days, the first flowers of spring, it remained to be seen whether the U. S. envoy could smoke out from London and Paris the terms of peace that would be a sufficient answer to the warlike challenge of Berlin...
Next day, the man whom President Roosevelt had dispatched to Europe as his envoy extraordinary if not plenipotentiary landed at Naples with his shipmate, Myron Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal representative to the Vatican, and headed for Rome. Next day sombre Mr. Taylor called on the Papal Secretary of State. Mr. Welles spent 90 minutes with Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, spent 60 minutes with a cordial II Duce. On the following day he caught a midnight train to Berlin to see Hitler. Italian newspapers that had almost ignored the envoys' arrival blossomed out about the length...
...Octogenarian O'Malley get, because Major Casey resigned from the Cabinet, left Corio for what most Aussies agreed was the biggest post, next to Prime Minister, in the Government: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the U. S. Last week Major Casey (whose hobby is flying) deplaned in Washington, with a walloping blessing from his old rival, O'Malley: "Casey has a great opportunity in America, if he leaves his Homburger hat and English side at home. He might even bring Australia within the scope of the Monroe Doctrine. If we enjoyed the privileges Canada has . . . we would...