Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were congratulating themselves because U. S. slashing of duties on French wines & liquors had reduced the price of champagnes and cognacs by 80? in the U. S.; and just as new French Premier Léon Blum was talking last week, according to the Associated Press, of appointing an envoy to try and borrow a cool "one billion dollars," abruptly the blood of U. S. citizens was made to boil against the Blum Cabinet and French employes of the American Hospital in Neuilly...
...accomplished fact. Meanwhile one of Marshal Badoglio's most dapper staff officers. Captain Adolfo Alessandri, dug his Sunday inspection breeches and best white gloves from the bottom of his campaign trunk, visited in turn every foreign legation in Addis Ababa. Clicking his heels he explained politely that each envoy would enjoy "every diplomatic privilege until the time of your departure." It was Italy's first official notification to the world that henceforth Ethiopia was not even to be considered another Manchukuo, but an out & out Italian colony...
...himself to humor the outlying world beyond his vast desert land, larger than Germany, France and Great Britain combined but with a population of only 15,000,000. Last year he curtly notified the diplomatic corps in Teheran that New Year's Day is March 22, told his envoys abroad to put a stop to the outlandish practice of calling Iran Persia. Last November the King of Kings was hopping mad over the outrage committed on the person of his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the U. S. Ghaffar Khan Djalal by some uncouth "Marylanders" in an unheard...
...Council, that would be blackballed by the Bolsheviks. As for the Fascists, there was a sardonic grin last week on the face of Benito Mussolini, who has mobilized in Europe 1,000,000 soldiers, not to mention his 300,000 in Africa. In London II Duce's envoy, Dino Grandi, kept saying: "Now is the time to settle everything" - i.e., to make a Vansittart Ethiopian peace and a Vansittart German peace. The august London Times raised its deep voice in harmony with this attitude...
...Ministers should not be considered by them license to violate, but instead reason for observing, laws with particular scrupulousness. This appeared to most Iranian aristocrats both unreasonable and silly. During Prohibition the entire corps diplomatique exercised their immunity to have liquor shipped to them in Washington. And if the envoy of the King of Kings has immunity to speed, how, Iranians asked, can Mr. Hull deduce from this an obligation to drive slowly...