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...Moscow these many months Mr. Bullitt has been the one envoy of a capitalist power who fraternized with Soviet folk of every sort. He could often be seen at parties with a Red ballerina, an immemorial Russian custom. Agents of the Soviet tourist bureau, Russian concert singers and Big Reds of all sorts have felt they had a friend in likeable "Bill" Bullitt, and something like another friend in charming Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The sudden note from Washington last week was based not on previous Soviet violations of the Litvinoff pledge of noninterference with U. S. domestic affairs...
...Bryan Owen packed her trunks, stowing away precious Eskimo costumes brought as trophies from Greenland. In Budapest, U. S. Minister John Flournoy Montgomery looked at the lush trees of Andrássy Utca, wondered whether their leaves would have turned before he saw them again. In Cairo, U. S. Envoy Bert Fish, in Warsaw, U. S. Envoy John Cudahy, in Riga, U. S. Envoy John Van A. Macmurray ticked off on their fingers the days to their departures. For a diplomatic pilgrimage was on, a pilgrimage of which the holy city was Washington, the temple the White House, its shrine...
From Alabama to Albania Hugh S. Grant, onetime secretary to Senator Hugh La Fayette Black, was last week boosted by the President to U. S. Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary...
Importantly in London last week Ethiopia's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Dr. Azaj Wargneh Martin, observed that J. P. Morgan is now in the British Isles and that it would be most gratifying if they could get together on a $10,000,000 loan. Next day an enormous limousine carried Ethiopia's envoy to Buckingham Palace and, in behalf of his sovereign Emperor Power of Trinity, the Conquering Lion of Judah, the King of Kings and the Elect of God, coffee-colored Minister Martin proceeded to decorate King George and Queen Mary...
...enthusiasm for King David as an ancestor, last week let himself be invested by Dr. Martin with the gold chain of the Ethiopian Order of King Solomon, and Queen Mary received the gold chain of the Order of Saba (or Sheba). In neither case did Ethiopia's envoy venture to put the gold chains around Their Majesties' necks, merely handed them over...