Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Affairs in India to London. It read: "The views [Phillips] has stated make it impossible for us to do other than regard him as persona non grata, and we could not again receive him. His views are not what we are entitled to expect from a professedly friendly telegram." envoy. The Viceroy has seen this The telegram was undated ; it had obviously been sent originally in cipher code...
...easy target for the Jap bombers. Last week a yellow-haired New Deal Congressman, Warren G. Magnuson, suggested an answer which might have come straight out of the pages of Dr. Fu Manchu-the Japanese, said he, had "made a patsy" out of the State Department. Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu, the story went, had complained to Cordell Hull that the far-ranging activity of the U.S. Navy gave Japanese militarists a chance to block his efforts at preserving peace. As a result, charged Magnuson, the fleet was kept anchored at Pearl Harbor and even air patrols curtailed, to assure...
...also a fact that Turkey's Ambassador to Berlin had come home, would not go back to Germany. But Hitler's envoy, wily Franz von Papen, instead of racing for Berlin, canceled a vacation, hotfooted to Ankara for a last-minute, bootless talk with Turkey's Premier and Foreign Minister, Sükrü Saracoglu. This move also gave Papen a chance to burn some papers, pack his bags...
Died. Pierre Vienot, 46, popular, hard-working Gaullist envoy to Britain; of a heart attack; in London. Lean, hooknosed Vienot rejected the armistice of 1940, escaped to North Africa, where Pierre Laval had him arrested and brought to France for imprisonment. He escaped, reached London sick from war wounds and prison privations, thereafter worked himself to death...
...invasion-that was still, said Washington, strictly General Dwight D. Eisenhower's business. Last week that overburdened officer had to turn from pre-invasion military chores, confer on French politics with General Joseph Pierre Koenig, doughty hero of Bir Hacheim and the De Gaulle Government's military envoy in London. At week's end a hitch occurred. The Committee protested against Britain's diplomatic-code ban, maintained that under pre-invasion restrictions of communications' and travel the conversations "cannot be usefully pursued...