Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Lord of the Treasury, let himself go limp and restful as he and the President viewed and reviewed the economic distress of the world, tried to bring into common focus War Debts, armaments, tariff barriers, trade restrictions, silver, currency. On it Edouard Herriot, France's chunky special envoy who quickly tires of standing, eased his short legs while he discussed his country's need for political security with a U. S. President whose good French made M. Herriot blush for his bad Eng- lish. On it sat large-framed Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada, whose...
...held so much hope for any one man as tin did for Simon I. Patino. Starting a poor native of the frozen mountains of Bolivia, he has wangled himself power and untold millions out of the tin mines in the mountains. Today he lives in a gilded Parisian palace, envoy extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Bolivia to France, with a daughter married to a Spanish marquis and a son married to a Bourbon princess, master in his own right of 15% of the world's tin resources. A rise of 4? a pound in tin, a rise which took...
...assist Secretary Hull in running the State Department, two names were prominent last week-William Phillips and Raymond Moley. Mr. Phillips is a longtime career diplomat. As envoy he has represented the U. S. in the Netherlands, Belgium and Canada, served two years (1922-24) as Undersecretary of State. He is a protocol (procedure) expert. Professor Moley, head of the Roosevelt "Brain Trust" has been the new President's chief adviser on War Debts since accompanying him to the first White House conference with President Hoover...
...Japan has expended over $5,000,000 in propagandizing America," exclaimed Dr. Frank W. Chinglun Lee, onetime Foreign minister of China, now special envoy to America and adviser to the Chinese legation, in an animated address delivered last Saturday before a gathering of the Chinese Student Clubs of Harvard and M.I.T. Patriotic zeal shone from Dr. Lee's wan features as he urged upon the gathering the need for unity and action. "China does not want war." he said. "Every move she has made since September 18, 1931 indicates her desire to cooperate with other nations for the peace...
...small loan from John Pierpont Morgan. The story goes that in the latter's library Lord Reading boldly asked for a billion dollars. Banker Morgan appeared mildly surprised, suggested that the Allies accept half a billion. Lord Reading returned to the U. S. as special envoy, borrowed billions more. Upon the retirement of Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice he became Ambassador at the special request of the U. S. State Department...