Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week President Roosevelt's envoy to India, William Phillips, announced that he had asked British permission to see India's imprisoned Mohandas K. Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, and that the permission had been refused. India's Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, took Phillips on a tiger hunt instead. Commented London politicos: "Phillips would indeed be an optimist if he thought he could converse with Gandhi and Nehru...
Franklin Roosevelt, master of almost a thousand press conferences, had the air of an indulgent uncle introducing a beautiful niece. Madame Chiang, he said, was a "special envoy very different from most"; he asked newsmen to confine their questions to the "non-catch type...
...attempt to understand the East, India's leading political figures (excluding those in jail), industrial tycoons and Europeans met at Delhi within a stone's throw of the Maharaja's palace now occupied by William Phillips, the Boston Brahman who is President Roosevelt's personal envoy to India.* Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar, who broke with Gandhi over the civil-disobedience issue, spoke eloquently of Gandhi's leadership, kindliness, love of freedom. Even the two Chambers of Princes and most Moslem groups (with the exception of loudmouthed Mohammed Ali Jinnah's Moslem League) joined...
Joseph C. Grew '02, President of the Harvard Alumni Association and former Ambassador to Japan, will receive the Howland Memorial Prize April 14 and will also deliver a public lecture in accepting the award, Yale University announced yesterday. Envoy to Japan from 1932 up to the outbreak of war, Grew has only been in the country since the early part of last fall...
Long View. The appointment of Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, as Italian envoy to the Holy See (TIME, Feb. 15) placed him in Vatican circles where he could mingle with envoys of nations at war with Italy. If Italy chooses to bid for peace, Ciano may have a chance to counteract the disgrace of his removal from Mussolini's Foreign Office and, capitalize on his many contacts with Britons and Americans...