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Inoffensive Mr. Ruth, cheered up & down Japan by frenzied millions of slant-eyed baseball fans, proved a Peace Envoy par excellence (TIME, Nov. 12). Shocked in Manhattan by the news from Tokyo last week, the Babe said: "I am mighty sorry to hear that anything has happened to Mr. Shoriki and I hope he recovers. He wasn't in the game for money, but because he believed baseball a good thing for Japan. To us he was a fine host, full of energy and hustle...
...citizen could wangle trade and cash out of hard-boiled Bolsheviks, the President thought, Bill Bullitt could. When Ambassador Builitt arrived in Moscow, he was acclaimed as no other envoy from a capitalist land has ever been acclaimed by Reds. From Joseph Stalin down the Bolshevik hierarchy hobnobbed with "Bill." His bright-eyed little daughter was patted on the head, called "Russia's Delight." Soon the Ambassador was on horseback, teaching Bolsheviks to play polo. With experienced, hard-driving Counselor of Embassy John Wiley plugging at his side. Ambassador Bullitt stormed the Kremlin again & again on the issues...
...long such tirades might have continued had not Rufus Daniel Isaacs been in the House is conjectural. This Jew of Jews, this Disraelian paragon of Empire, the great Marquess of Reading, was Lord Chief Justice of England (1913-21), be fore he became High Commissioner and Special Envoy to borrow wartime millions in the U. S. through J. P. Morgan ;; Co. Gently interposing last week, Rufus Daniel Isaacs proposed to rephrase the offending clause, "so that it should not operate to the prejudice of anybody now a Lord Justice...
Meanwhile the new Soviet envoy to Rumania, smart Minister Mikhail Ostrovsky, arrived at Bucharest by a comfortable roundabout route. When he presented his credentials to King Carol without mentioning Bessarabia, Rumanian editors concluded that, despite Soviet geography books, Dictator Stalin has decided to drop that question...
...their work, swarm over the docks, prepare a rousing welcome for Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. In the midst of a great din the Dutch freighter Damsterdyk tied up. Down the gangplank, blinking behind heavy spectacles, marched Colonel Irving Augustus Isaac Lindberg, High Commissioner of Nicaragua, Collector-General of Customs. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, whose biggest duty is to appease Nicaragua's foreign bondholders. Vastly disgruntled, the crowd drifted away...