Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ethiopians remained the rage in Tokyo last week but Japanese began to scan their credentials. The yellow Emperor's subjects continued to lavish official hospitality on the chocolate Emperor's envoy Daba Birrou (TIME, Sept. 30), but after elaborately banqueting a certain Mr. Thomas they found out that he fits only the fourth part of his description of himself: "I am an Ethiopian, a graduate of Cambridge University, a millionaire and desirous of taking a Japanese bride...
...troops invade Ethiopia, ruffled the Nile Club by observing with asperity: "If worst comes to worst, Ethiopia would much prefer being under the just and considerate administration of Britain than that of Italy." This caused the British Foreign Office to call him in next day and intimate that an envoy to the Court of St. James's would do well not to refer publicly to His Majesty's Government as the lesser of two evils. But meanwhile 9-year-old John Martin had completely won over the Nile Club...
...told," piped the envoy's son, jumping up on a table, "that a naughty Italian wants to kill my people, take our country, and make us his slaves. Dear ladies & gentlemen, please stop this man from being so cruel! But, if you won't stop him, please give us guns, and we will fight him. I am sure God will help us to keep our country...
...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...