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Between the Vatican and President Roosevelt there is warm friendship and, on occasion, warm agreement. But between Mr. Roosevelt and Monsignor Cicognani there is neither. Before the President announced his appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his personal envoy to the Pope,* he consulted not Monsignor Cicognani but New York's able new Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman, and Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil, temporary successor of Chicago's late Cardinal Mundelein...
...Taylor, who will have the rank of Ambassador, but without portfolio, will be the first U. S. envoy to visit the Vatican officially since Rufus King left Rome in 1868, after Congress refused to appropriate any more money for his salary...
...Sandler's place last week stood tall, 53-year-old Christian E. Günther, one of Sweden's smoothest diplomatists. Onetime Minister to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, he has more recently served as Sweden's envoy to Norway. A playwright, novelist and poet, Foreign Minister Günther belongs to no political party, like all good diplomats has long cultivated the habit of keeping his mouth shut and his ears open. Unlike Mr. Sandier, he can scarcely be accused of being for or against anybody...
Last week Russia arrived again at the Finland Station, but this time it was really Finland and the trains were running West. As Russia's westward expansion hit the border of the little Baltic country and she presented her demands to Finland's envoy to Moscow, she also presented President Roosevelt with a major problem in statecraft. It forced on him what correspondents did not hesitate to call "the most delicate and momentous" decision of his career...
Baltic Pact. J. Stalin received A. Hitler's envoy at the Kremlin just five hours after he reached Moscow. Herr von Ribbentrop left a ballet performance of Swan Lake to go to the Dictator at 11 p. m. and they talked until 4 130 a. m. Seemingly this German intervention made no difference in the terms meted out to Estonia and signed two days later by Foreign Minister Selter & delegation...