Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Chilton, C. M. G., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Charge d'Affaires ad interim of Great Britain, for the British Empire...
...represent His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Japan at Moscow went Tokichi Tanaka, ex-counselor of the Japanese Embassy at Washington, ex-Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, ex-Director of the Intelligence Bureau at Tokyo, as Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary...
...represent the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (Russia) at Tokyo went one Victor L. Kopp, also as Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary...
Hero Eaton. "Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute," shouted the U. S. envoy in Paris; meanwhile, the U. S. made large yearly "presents" to a bedizened rapscallion with a glittering eye, that Admiral of the Barbary Corsairs, the Bey of Tunis. To Tunis went William Eaton, blond Midshipman from Connecticut. Said he to the Bey's brother: "I will put you on the throne." The U. S. Navy Department connived. Eaton mustered an army of sheiks and camels, began a staggering crusade along the coast to Derne. He ran out of provisions, plodded on. His army deserted...
...Justice; and at the outbreak of the War, he advised several financial measures, notably the issue of one-pound notes. Three times he was selected as British representative to the U. S.: 1915, as Sir Rufus Isaacs, head of the Anglo-French Loan Mission; 1917, as Viscount Reading, Special Envoy; 1918, as Earl Reading, Special Ambassador...