Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hospital. Sickles told him hollowly: "[The doctors] tell me ... that I had better put my affairs in order." "I am in a prophetic mood today," answered Lincoln, "and I prophesy that you'll live to do many an important service." Eighteen months later he made Sickles his personal envoy, sent him off to Latin America on a mission so confidential that to this day it remains a State Department secret. On his return, President Johnson appointed Sickles to be Military Governor of the Carolinas. In 1869, President Grant named him Minister to Spain...
...interpolated that hardly anything is known by the outside world concerning what goes on within the immense expanse of Outer Mongolia. Urga (the capital of Outer Mongolia) keeps an envoy in Moscow accredited to the Soviet Union. This man, notoriously secretive, refuses to talk with foreigners. Until recently he was accounted a nonentity in the Moscow diplomatic picture. However, there are indications that his status has altered. When Marshal Tito visited Moscow, the Mongolian envoy was invited to greet him at the airport by the protocol department of the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs and was introduced to the Yugoslav leader...
Before the hour expired, the Duce, who in his fustian prime had bellowed to his followers, "If I retreat, kill me!" was in headlong flight. At 9 p.m. he reached Como near the Swiss border. At 2 a.m. Thursday he sent an envoy to ask Swiss authorities to grant asylum to his wife, Donna Rachele, and their children. The Swiss emphatically declined. About 6 a.m. Mussolini sneaked northward presumably in the hope of reaching Germany. According to one report he joined a German truck convoy trying unsuccessfully to disguise himself in a German officer's overcoat. He was spotted...
...Breaks. Through the lines on Friday came an enemy envoy carrying a white sheet. He delivered an ultimatum: two hours to decide upon surrender. The alternative: "annihilation by artillery." The German commander appended a touching appeal to U.S. instincts: "The serious civilian losses caused by this artillery fire would not correspond with the well-known American humanity...
...wounded beg him, "Don't give up on account of us, General Mac." He sat at a debris-littered desk, printed his reply with formal military courtesy: "To the German Commander-NUTS!-the American Commander." So there would be no misinterpretation, an officer translated for the blindfolded German envoy: "It means the same as 'Go to Hell...